• Learning with all your senses: Multimoda

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    Learning with all your senses: Multimodal enrichment as the optimal
    learning strategy of the future

    Date:
    February 1, 2023
    Source:
    Technische Universita"t Dresden
    Summary:
    Neuroscientists have compiled extensive interdisciplinary findings
    from neuroscience, psychology, computer modelling and education on
    the topic of 'learning' in a recent review article. The results of
    the interdisciplinary review reveal the mechanisms the brain uses
    to achieve improved learning outcome by combining multiple senses
    or movements in learning. This kind of learning outcome applies to a
    wide variety of domains, such as letter and vocabulary acquisition,
    reading, mathematics, music, and spatial orientation.


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    Many educational approaches assume that integrating complementary sensory
    and motor information into the learning experience can enhance learning,
    for example gestures help in learning new vocabulary in foreign language classes.

    In her recent publication, neuroscientist Katharina von Kriegstein
    from Technische Universita"t Dresden and Brian Mathias of the
    University of Aberdeen summarize these methods under the term
    "multimodal enrichment." This means enrichment with multiple senses
    and movement. Numerous current scientific studies prove that multimodal enrichment can enhance learning outcomes.

    Experiments in classrooms show similar results.


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    In the review article, the two researchers compare these findings
    with cognitive, neuroscience, and computational theories of multimodal enrichment.

    Recent neuroscience research has found that the positive effects of
    enriched learning are associated with response in brain regions that
    serve perception and motor function. For example, hearing a recently
    learned foreign language word, may elicit activity in motor brain regions
    if the word was associated with the performance of a congruent gesture
    during learning. These brain responses are causal to the benefits of
    multimodal enrichment for learning outcome. Computer algorithms confirm
    this hypothesis.

    "The brain is optimized for learning with all the senses and with
    movement.

    Brain structures for perception and motor skills work together to
    promote this type of learning. We hope that our deeper understanding
    of the brain's learning mechanisms, will facilitate the development of
    optimal learning strategies in the future," explains Brian Mathias.

    Katharina von Kriegstein adds, "The results of the literature we
    reviewed contribute to our understanding of why several long-used
    learning strategies, such as parts of the Montessori method, are
    effective. They also provide clear clues as to why some approaches
    are not as effective. Recently uncovered neuroscientific mechanisms
    may inspire the updating of cognitive and computational theories of
    learning, providing new hypotheses about learning. We anticipate that
    such an interdisciplinary and evidence-based approach will lead to the optimization of learning and teaching strategies in the future, for both
    humans and artificial systems."
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    ========================================================================== Journal Reference:
    1. Brian Mathias, Katharina von Kriegstein. Enriched learning:
    behavior,
    brain, and computation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023; 27
    (1): 81 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.10.007 ==========================================================================

    Link to news story: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230201134225.htm

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