How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene

Author:Stanislas Dehaene
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

Long before computers were invented, the Italian doctor and teacher Maria Montessori (1870–1952) noticed how a variety of practical activities could develop concentration in young children. In today’s Montessori schools, for example, children walk along an ellipse drawn on the ground, without ever taking their feet off the line. Once they succeed, the difficulty is raised by having them walk with a spoon in their mouth, then with a ping-pong ball in the spoon, and so on. Experimental studies suggest that the Montessori approach has a positive impact on many aspects of child development.33 Other studies demonstrate the attentional benefits of video games, meditation, or the practice of a musical instrument. . . . For a young child, controlling their body, gaze, and breathing while coordinating their two hands can be an excruciatingly difficult task—that is probably why playing music at an early age has a strong impact on the attention circuits of the brain, including a significant bilateral increase in the thickness of the prefrontal cortex.34

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