Introduction
The role of brain in learning is vital for people living in this world due to the extreme necessity in contemporary conditions of fast-growing technological prospects and ideas for life. In this respect the project is evaluated on the grounds of two journal articles with mere similar researches in terms of memory skills and capacities of the brain in learning. The paper is full of details as of the researches and their results with points on the appropriate audience and contributions which were made afterwards. Both articles are relatively modern in estimation and provide a scope of specific information as of brain activity and its phases while learning a definite material, the functions of it, and the work and significance of the memory for contemporary life. The structure of the paper falls into the discussion and evaluation of both articles in the sequential order with their summaries and findings according to the issue of brain activity. This topic was selected due to the enigmatic nature of brain opportunities which are used by a man in a little proportion to a real power of brain and every process related to it.
Discussion
First of all, it is necessary to mention the first journal article ‘Brain plasticity and behavior’ by Bryan Kolb, Ian Q. Whishaw in Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 49, 1998. In this article the authors are trying by means of the scientific approach to estimate the brain and behavior correlations for future working out of the proper methodology in terms of neural changes considered with the processes of behavior manifestation under different circumstances. The research takes into account such methods as Analysis of Behavior and Analysis of the Brain (Kolb & Whishaw, 1998). In this respect main efforts are directed at the question of plastic change of brain before, during, and after acquisition of skills, on the one hand. On the other hand, the researchers provide a scope of constructive reasoning about neuronal activity of the brain in the time framework of the whole life.
The research considered the closely related audience familiar with biopsychology in its behavioral implementation and methods of making out the behavioral approach in its rational emotive, dialectical, and cognitive behavioral therapy. The work is concentrated over previously made conclusions and findings of contemporary psychologists and medics in peculiarities of brain-to-behavior relation.
The main approaches of how the research was done are reckoned with the experience in comparison with changes emerging in the brain and experience-dependant change and its modulation (Kolb & Whishaw, 1998). This idea is supported with the work of dendrites in difficult relations of behavior in terms of biochemical reactions. The attempts to point out changes in synaptic organization of brain are correlated with the plasticity of brain. Moreover, the significance of environmental enrichment and personal data of a human being are analyzed with the purpose to find the optimal explanation of such processes on the experimental base.
The findings of the researchers showed that “experience alters the synaptic organization of the brain in species as diverse as fruit flies and humans” with points on the work and connections of dendrites in the area of neocortex (Kolb & Whishaw, 1998, p. 45). In this respect there is a sort of recommendation to prove such investigation materials in practice of criminal and medical evaluation of how the peculiarities of peoples’ personal data as for physiological structure of neural system and brain may be interpreted further in the field of their possible inclinations.
Another journal article ‘Memory Systems in the Brain’ by Edmund T. Rolls published in Annual Review of Psychology, 2000, provides a scientific research in area of peoples’ capacities to recognize, evaluate, and interpret different pieces of information by means of memory. The researcher tries to find out how learning mechanisms are connected with the processing of information by the brain in terms of neuroscience. The author directly promotes the real driving objective for his work: “A major reason for investigating the actual brain mechanisms that underlie behavior is not only to understand how our own brains work, but also to have the basis for understanding and treating medical disorders of the brain” (Rolls, 2000, p. 599).
In the research the author is intended to straightforwardly find out the effects of brain systems throughout the use of punishment and reward reinforcers as an impetus for different states of the brain. Thereupon, the role of primary and secondary stimuli is learnt for the sake of finding truth whether input and output systems of the brain are related to the hippocampus and connected areas (Rolls, 2000). Primary reinforcers differ from the secondary ones in the research in their extent of previous study. In this respect Rolls (2000) uses a scientific approach, so that to depict and explore the participation of emotional, motivational, and behavioral approaches in their connection with biochemical reactions in the area of cortex.
The audience for the provision of this research contemplates high rates of gained experience and practice of participants with points on the neuroscience and psychology in their reciprocal relation and individual explanation of the brain in its complicated structure and functional fullness. All in all, this study accumulates a specific base of knowledge about brain from the outlook on its ability to perceive and express information due to the short-term and long-term sections of memory.
The findings showed the trend that it is possible today to determine the process happening while memorizing different modes of information without any hesitation in making conclusions of what tasks should be implemented for this purpose. In other words, the research proved that, as Rolls (2000) points out, the above described work intends to learn the quantitative measurements of different parts of the brain concerned with memory with a promise to delineate also other parts of it related to the sensory or emotional reflections as well. The recommendations are reckoned with the use of contemporary high technologies to wok out in detail the means of memory improvements due to technological approach.
Conclusion
The above mentioned analysis of two journal articles related to the topic of brain learning described a great interest of contemporary scholars in neuroscience, psychology, and biopsychology to thoroughly research the issues connected with abilities of the brain not only for just improvements of peoples’ capacities, but for curing specific diseases connected with the brain activity due to a specter of methodological procedures. Nevertheless, both researches prove the idea of behavioral demonstrations as a projection of brain activity with all positive and negative peculiarities concerned with an anatomical structure of this organ. Scholars worldwide are still known little about the capabilities of the brain, but due to a sequential work in this field the achievement of such goal will be possible little by little.
References
Kolb, B., & Whishaw, I. Q. (1998). ‘Brain Plasticity and Behavior’. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 43-46.
Rolls, E. T. (2000). Memory Systems in the Brain. Annual Review of Psychology, 599.