Volume 3, No. 1The neuroscience of education: Interdisciplinary perspectives that unite the discoveries of neuroscience with those of the disciplines of education and psychology.

The fifth issue of Cortica focuses on perspectives in the neuroscience of education. We present 12 fundamental principles on which the cognitive-socio-emotional relationship in education is based. This relationship impacts the child's brain.

1. Learning strengthens synapses.
2. Remembering reactivates plasticity.
3. Different behaviors use different but overlapping circuits.
4. Experiences and genetics shape circuit development.
5. Repetition, application, and self-assessment lead to automaticity and mastery.
6. Experience and repetition strengthen synaptic circuit development.
7. Emotions facilitate memory and decision-making.
8. Brain pathways, although similar from one person to another, are shaped by unique experiences.
9. Unique brain architecture influences learning, memory, and decision-making.
10. The complexity of the body-brain link produces consciousness and free will.
11. Safe learning environments offer deeper learning opportunities through the ARC model: Attachment (connection), Reward (meaning), Skills (esteem and self-confidence)
12. Remember the two laws of neuroscience: (1) Use it or lose it; (2) Neurons that fire together in synchrony structurally and functionally bind together.