Brain Plasticity Essay

Marwan Abi Nader

11/19/2017

Brain plasticity and learning

Introduction

In our world, learning is more available to people. New knowledge is important for every person who like to gain information. This kind of people have their brain changing. The plasticity is responsible about that fact in the brain. The plasticity gives the brain the ability to grow up day after day. New language, dance and other activities help the brain to develop. Also, the plasticity had no limits according to time and age. We will discover the good effects of learning on brain plasticity. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/312708.php The brain works faster when it learns new language.

Some researchers had done a research on people that speak only their native

Plasticity change between people who learn music and people who does not. Researchers compared people who play music like a professional, people who practice music like a hobby and the non-musical people. They found that the two first categories of people have high volume of gray matter of their brain. The non-musical people have low volume of gray matter of their brain.

Reading helps older brain to develop https://www.livescience.com/59335-adults-who-learn-to-read-show-profound-brain-plasticity.html An adult person who is illiterate and tries to read shows profound changes in deep brain. It came from a study where researchers helped illiterate woman from North India to read. In addition, the illiterate woman had scanned their brain before and after learning to read. The researchers found a big change in the brain after the women learned to read. They conclude that the brain of an adult is not flexible. The plasticity still actives in adult age.

The changes occurred in the outer layer of the brain. Precisely, the cortex changed. The deeper structure of the brain was influence by the change specially the thalamus. This organ of the brain filters the visual information. The thalamus sends the visual information to the virtual cortex. The coordination between the two organs of the brain helped the performance of the reading by the Indian

Review demands from students to be always attentive. It done after a question is posed, somebody made a comment, an interesting passage is read, an activity is done, and when the teacher gives directions in class. Moreover, review is a process for all the semester. The student need to read many times the notes that he took during class. It helps him or her to clarify and consolidate their learning in memory. If the review is done many times, it helps to memorize the information in our brain for a long time.

Metacognition: according to the website sharp brains, the metacognition has two phases: the first is knowledge about cognition or by other words, it is thinking about our thinking. The second is observing and controlling our way of thinking.

Sleep: it helps to keep our learning to be consolidate. Students need to have a good night sleep when they have school next day. Also, the next day of school, the student will have more energy and patience to study, to think and to take notes. The attention of the student in class will be strong that will help to restore basics information in his