Date of Publication: 2007-01-01

The volume focuses on biodynamic perspectives, analysing the following themes: learning environments and brain development, embodiment and adaptive cognition, perceptual systems and sensorial knowledge.

The links are highlighted between neural, social, evolutive and contextual basis of cognition, body schemata representations, embodied cognition, cognitive modifiability and educability, perceptual intelligence and neural modelling for educational design and brain development in learning environments.

Flavia Santoianni is Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Relational Sciences at University Federico II of Naples. She has authored and edited eighteen books and numerous articles, and has held several distinguished positions in her field including the responsability of national and international research projects. She is scientific coordinator of the B.E.S. Bioeducational Sciences Research Group, and in the field of bioeducational sciences has recently edited with E. Frauenfelder Mind, Learning and Knowledge in Educational Contexts, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2003.

Claudia Sabatano is Ph.D. and Post Doc of Education in the Department of Relational Sciences at University Federico II of Naples. She teaches in S.I.C.S.I., the Italian School of Teaching, is member of the Bioeducational Sciences Research Group, and scientific coordinator of the B.E.S. Laboratory of Embodied Situated Cognition and Implicit Learning. She has authored numerous articles and books.

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