AERA highlights-Cognitive Neuroscience

Generally, when attend the domestic conference about education, we could hear from the viewpoint from education, psychology and sociology.  The AERA is the hugest conference I have attended ever not only because the number of participators but also the fields it covered in education. Neuroscience is one of the frontier field attract researches' interests. 

Here is the Presidential Session in the subject of Cognitive Neuroscience and Education. Michael Posner from University of Oregon deliver a speech titled Bridging Brain, Cognition, and Education From an Early Developmental Perspective. 

From my perspective, the role of neuroscience in education is twofold. Neuroscience is providing evidence for our previous finding in education on psychology and sociology level. Besides explanation role, on the other hand, this rapid developing field is discovering our learning mechanism directly. Brain is not a 'black box' now. Absorb the findings from neuroscience will benefit us a lot and bring a different perspective.