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- 1. Coursera My name is Peggy Liz Mendes de Moraes. I am from Brazil. I'm in Chicago visiting my daughter who had a baby. I am a clinical psychologist; Master of Science in Health Care and I am currently doing a postgraduate course in Neuroscience. When I saw the course Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life I was very interested, and I can say that it was excellent for deepening my knowledge about the brain. It was very difficult to choose a topic to address because the course brought many exciting topics that left me very motivated for my studies. In addition to working with clinic, I worked for many years and schools with children with learning difficulties for this reason I decided to bring the executive functions. I will talk about Executive Functions and Learning, and Executive Dysfunctions. Learning is a process of acquiring new information from the environment, involving its reception, processing and consolidation, as well as the retrieval of this information and application in appropriate means. (More, H., 2011). Executive dysfunctions: involve functional problems or structures in the frontal lobe or in the interconnection of these areas with other cortical areas. What characterizes an executive dysfunction? Immediate disorganization of behaviors linked to goals. • Decrease in voluntary attention. • Lack of effective learning strategies, compromising the
- 2. memorization. • Low conceptual flexibility. • Ineffective working memory. • Difficulty in planning. • Reduced abstraction capacity. It is not necessarily necessary to have a pathology to experience difficulties in some executive components. Inappropriate educational practices, for example, can be behind some of these difficulties. Like all other roles, executive components must have trained or stimulated already in childhood. The skills that make up the executive functions are essential for conscious and deliberate control over actions, thoughts and emotions. Such capabilities enable the student to manage their behavior and ideas autonomously and independently. Without a good development of cognitive functions, students may have difficulty remembering contents and facts in order to relate them in the short term or to prevent external thoughts or events from distracting attention, or even to reflect on different points of view.