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Education 173 Cognition and Learning in Educational Settings The Brain and Learning Fall Quarter 2007 Mind and Brain Not Equivalent The Mind Relies on the Physical Brain Brain Anatomy Brainstem, Cerebellum, Cerebrum Brainstem controls breathing, heart rate, sleeping, alertness Cerebellum controls balance and coordination Cerebrum: somatosensory functions Cerebral Cortex Higher functions: Larger in humans than in animals Last part of brain to develop, so it’s more sensitive to environmental influences Frontal Lobe Four Lobes Behind Forehead Conscious Thinking Planning, inhibition (delayed gratification), attention, reasoning, decision making, strategies, goal setting, selfmonitoring Parietal Lobe Top of head Somatosensory functions Temporal Lobe Above ears Complex auditory info (Language) Occipital Lobe Back of head Visual processing Association Areas Lateralization Control/Sensation of Opposite Side Motor: Left Hemisphere Controls Right Hand Traumatic Brain Injury: Paralysis, Speech Disruption Sensory: Crossover for vision; partial crossover for hearing Relative Specialization Left hemisphere: language and analytic thought 90 percent of right handers have language functions focused in left hemisphere But only 60 percent of left handed people have language functions in the left hemisphere Right hemisphere: spatial and holistic thought In normal populations, a division of labor Modularity QuickTime™ and a TIFF (U ncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. Broca’s and Wernicke’s Areas Broca’s: Grammatically Correct Speech Wernicke’s: Meaningful Speech Phineas Gage, Railroad Man Plasticity and Redundancy QuickTime™ and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture. The violinist re-mapping Re-mapping after injury or surgery Brain Circuits Complex Performance Neuroimaging: fMRI and PET Almost always, multiple areas (circuits) are activated Brain Imaging and Mathematical Reasoning Brain Imaging and Reading Neuron Anatomy and Adaptation Neurons Cell body, dendrites, axon, terminal buttons Myelin sheath About 100 billion neurons About 7 billion people on earth Up to 100,000/sec prenatally Neurogenesis in adulthood Synapses and Neurotransmitters Synapses is Gap Neurons don’t touch Excitatory, Inhibitory Threshold of Excitation Neurotransmitters Dopamine, serotonin Mood/Depression Blooming and Pruning Blooming Children have many more synapses than do adults Synaptogenesis: Between birth and age 3 Rapid proliferation of synapses Pruning Synapses disappear if not used (resorption) Formation depends on chemicals (neurotrophins) In cortex, pruning extends into adolescence Sculpting Other Developmental Changes Increased Myelination Just before birth and into 20s Maturation of Frontal Lobes Into early adulthood Brain Development and Experience Experience-Expectant Development Any normal environment—visual perception, language Disrupted by malnutrition Disrupted by sensory or social deprivation Disrupted by toxins Experience-Dependant Development Specialized skills for a particular culture Literacy produces a thicker corpus callosum Learning and Brain Structure Learning: Many Mechanisms Search for the “Engram” Knowledge rarely or never a single spot Karl Lashley’s surgery on rats’ brains Still remembered maze Where’s Grandma? Learning and Brain Structure Experience and Synaptic Density Rats in two kinds of cages Diamond and rat brain density Effects of deprivation Learning and Brain Efficiency UCI Study: Better performance associated with lower brain metabolism Learning and Brain Structure The Hippocampus--Basis for LTM Amnesia—The case of HM An inability to learn--almost Consolidation of memory Fast and slow processes Exercise and Nutrition Exercise Brain is Physical Structure Exercise and Vascularization Exercise and Neurotrophins Nutrition Glucose Essential fats—Omega 3 A Bridge Too Far Overextending Brain Research John Bruer Right brain/Left brain Critical periods Language Learning: Phonemic Awareness But these can be overcome Early study of music The Middle Island of Cognitive Science