ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 presents the interdisciplinary field of neuroeducation, which seeks to use neuroscience to improve the educational process. Reciprocally, by engaging with the challenges faced by educators and their students, neuroeducation also seeks to provide novel insights into the neuroscience of learning, memory, and cognition. Behavioral neuroscience has already contributed to a further understanding of acquisition of knowledge and skills in specific subjects, reading and math in particular, as well as to an understanding of developmental problems such as dyslexia and dyscalculia. A particularly valuable collaboration between education and neuroscience has enriched our understanding of executive function, including inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility (updating). Efforts to improve executive function through model programs, non-invasive brain stimulation, and nootropics are evaluated. Controversies regarding the efficacy of brain training, including discussions of near and far transfer, are presented.
