The importance of emotions for the neurodidactics

Abstract

This article exposes the importance of emotions for the neurodidactics as they affect the learning process. The objective of the neurodidactics is to promote the development of new strategies based on the theories of neurosciences, that shows the manage of emotions and their relationship with the learning process, which can be conceptualized as the creation of memories driven by stimuli that boost or inhibit. Learning has a direct relationship not only with memory, but fundamentally with emotional stimuli, on which depends what and how deep is the student learning. Learning begins in the hippocampus and amygdala, which collaborate in the evaluation of emotional stimuli. The didactic strategies used in the classroom contribute to the learning process of students or to stop it, depending on the management of the emotions that the teacher make. The article was built on the basis of the review of literature related to the functioning of the emotional brain, and the way in which emotions influence human learning.

Key Words: Neuroscience: neuroeducation; neurodidactics; emotions