title: Neuroscience and education: prime time to build the bridge.
abstract: As neuroscience gains social traction and entices media attention, the notion that education has much to benefit from brain research becomes increasingly popular. However, it has been argued that the fundamental bridge toward education is cognitive psychology, not neuroscience. We discuss four specific cases in which neuroscience synergizes with other disciplines to serve education, ranging from very general physiological aspects of human learning such as nutrition, exercise and sleep, to brain architectures that shape the way we acquire language and reading, and neuroscience tools that increasingly allow the early detection of cognitive deficits, especially in preverbal infants. Neuroscience methods, tools and theoretical frameworks have broadened our understanding of the mind in a way that is highly relevant to educational practice. Although the bridge's cement is still fresh, we argue why it is prime time to march over it.
authors.affiliation: 1] Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa, Physics Department, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires and IFIBA, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [2] Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Mariano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sigman
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Neurociencias Cognitivas, Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
authors.forename: Marcela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peña
authors.affiliation: 1] Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa, Physics Department, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires and IFIBA, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [2] Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Andrea P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Goldin
authors.affiliation: Instituto do Cérebro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil.
authors.forename: Sidarta
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D004493:Education / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D009488:Neurosciences