Enhance the learning activity and to keep the matter
preserved
Research
done by team related to curiosity is published in which it showed how
the human brain works when stimulation of curiosity is processed. And
the research done in the scientific journal Neuron. The researchers
said that when a human mind is curious to know something then the
things are leant in better way.
The
matter which is already learnt will remain for more when there is a
curiosity and the ability will speed up to learn something new.
The
memory is affected by curiosity-an intrinsic motivation, it is the
conclusion of the researchers for the public. Cell Press, publishers
of Neuron quoted it in a statement that it is said by Dr Matthias
Gruber who is the lead author at University of California at Davis
that through the findings of researchers, the ways through which the
learning activity in the classes will be enhanced can be discovered.
The
ones who participated in the activity were informed to choose the
questions which they found the most curious. Then the participants
were informed that they will be introduced with the answers of
question they have chosen but after 14 seconds, they were introduced
with the answers. An unrelated face picture which is neutral is shown
to the participants in the break.
Then
after it, the faces which were shown to the participants in the break
of 14 seconds were to be identified by the participants as instructed
and also to remember the answers of the question which they have
chosen earlier.
Between
this processes, through functional magnetic resonance imaging, the
scanning of their brains was carried out. The result came out with
three main conclusions, 1: the things will be learnt in a better way
when there is a curiosity to know something.
The
distinct matter ( the unknown faces) for the participants were not
curious also learnt in a better way surprisingly when they were
curious and when the people remain in the state of curiosity then
they are able to maintain the information across a wait of a day.
It
is explained by Dr Grubber that when the person is curious the brain
put itself in a state that it learns any kind of matter in a quick
way and save it for a longer time similar to a vortex that learn what
you want to and every other unrelated thing around it.
When
the person gets curious, second thing that was found by the
researchers that the activity of the brain circuit linked to reward
is increased. Dr Grubber said that the areas of the brain that are
concerned with physical, extrinsic motivation are actually work
forced by the intrinsic motivation. With the help of a chemical
messenger Dopamine, the messages between neutrons are transmitted and
the reward circuit depends on it.
When
the curiosity is aroused, then the third which was observed by the
team is that Hippocampus activity is increased, new memories are
formed by Hippocampus and it is also found that the contact of the
reward circuit with the Hippocampus increase in the state of
curiosity.
Dr
Charan Ranganath, the chief investigator explained that the reward
system is work forced by curiosity and the person will be able to
learn things quickly and remember them for a longer time even if the
person is not interested in that matte due to the increased
interaction of Hippocampus with the reward system.
The
medicine and some more things can take suggestion through these
findings. For example, in the old age of people, the functioning of
the brain circuits depend on Dopamine turn down or in neurological
conditions even in the early age.
The
patients suffering from disorders would be treated through the
efforts that can b stimulated if the relationship between memory and
motivation could be understood and the memory that get older can be
remain healthy by the development of new approaches through these
findings.
If
the curiosity of the students and the workers is known by the
teachers then the learning power of the students in the classrooms
will be improved and they would not find it boring.
October
7, 2014 by Vishal
Bohara
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