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The Implications of Science Teaching and Practices on Educational Neuroscience

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Researchers have begun applying developments in neuroscience to reveal the underlying physiological mechanisms involved in learning processes, beginning with early childhood education and extending to the quest for lifelong learning. This chapter examines the research findings of neuroscience, from three distinct perspectives: psychological, educational, and technological. Our examination of memory processes (short term and long term) led to a discussion of perception, attention, and the role of the senses in the processes of recognition, the actions of composition and decomposition, and the activation of various parts of the brain. We looked at the establishment of new neural pathways, the development of brain-based curricula, and the interaction of these elements in learning outcomes. We also examined the differences inherent in learning new versus familiar concepts and disconnected data versus relevant information. Finally, we examined the processes and implications involved in the visualization of science-related concepts. With a focus experiments on the tracking of eye movements and the latest development in MRI detection with regard to the sequence learning system and differences in the activation of various parts of the brain, we found these research methods could apply to investigate a lot of kinds of studies including a comparison of the perception of actual events with those rendered in 2D low virtual reality and 3D high virtual reality.

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    Chia-Ju Liu, Wen-Wei Chiang, Chin-Fei Huang & Ming-Hsun Shen

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Liu, CJ., Chiang, WW., Huang, CF., Shen, MH. (2015). The Implications of Science Teaching and Practices on Educational Neuroscience. In: Khine, M. (eds) Science Education in East Asia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16390-1_9

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