Neuroscientist Richard Davidson presents his research on how social and emotional learning can affect the brain

The Heart-Brain Connection: The Neuroscience of Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning – Neuroscientist Richard Davidson presents his research on how social and emotional learning can affect the brain.

“The brain is plastic, built to change in response of experience.”
“Plasticity occurs all our lifes.”
“The preftrontal cortex is key and is aconvergence zone for affect and cognition: negative emotion will interfere with cognitive prefrontal function.”
“Social-emotional learning is an empirically verified strategy to improve skills of emotions regulation and social adaptation.”
“As such, social-emotional learning likely produces beneficial brain changes.”
“Education literally shapes the child’s brain and likely produces alterations that lay the foundations for all future learning, emotion regulation and social functioning.”

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http://www.danielgoleman.info/video/