Neuroscience and educationWe already reached the tipping point
- 1 Departamento de Psicobiología, Universidad Complutense
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Instituto de Salud Carlos III
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ISSN: 1135-755X
Year of publication: 2015
Volume: 21
Issue: 2
Pages: 67-70
Type: Article
More publications in: Psicología educativa
Abstract
The aim of this contribution is to introduce the present Special Issue on Neuroscience and Education of the Revista de Psicología Educativa/Educational Psychology. After a brief introduction to current advances in general cognitive neuroscience that are being possible by means of brain imaging techniques available only during the most recent decades, we will discuss some aspects that have been contributing to hamper a true integration between both disciplines (neuroscience and education). The articles included in the present monograph provide empirical evidence that neuroscience has already reached a sufficient body of knowledge as to substantially improve education and political decisions in this respect. Neuroscience reveals that brain maturation extends at least until the second decade of life and that the exposition to different developmental experiences and opportunities is crucial along this extensive life period, so that none of its phases should be downplayed.
Funding information
The author has been awarded grant PSI2013-43107-P from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO, Programa Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia, Subprograma Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento Proyectos de I + D), Spain.Funders
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