Emotion In David A. Sousa's Mind, Brain, Education

Emotion has a big impact on how well we are able to perform and learn. As students we don’t give enough emphasizes on the effect that emotion has on how well we can learn. Students often find themselves frustrated on the fact that they are unable to learn a certain subject, but they never stop to think why that is. In most situations it had to do with the attitude or maybe a negative emotion they might be feeling. According to David A. Sousa’s “Mind, Brain, Education,” we develop nonconsicious emotional reaction to certain scenarios (73). For instance, take a scenario where a student has to learn events that occurred during the 1920s in the United States. This student makes flashcards to help him memorize and understand the events that occurred during that time. If he’s had a bad day and doesn 't want to study and the only reason he is studying is so his mother will shut up and stop yelling at him, …show more content…
Although Sousa argues that there is no such thing as reading brain. “There is no single part of the brain that does reading” (139). The first function of constructing the brain the visual processing or orthography. This first function is the visual processing which gives meaning to marks in a page. Words are nothing, if they don 't have meaning, so we have to learn the meaning of these words. For instance every time we see the combination of the words b, e, and d (bed) we know that means something we sleep in. Our brain associates certain combination of words and gives the meaning. Sousa mentions how the cortical usual processing stream decides into two. The first being the ventral pathway. The ventral pathway or “what pathway” process color, form, and fine detail. The other pathway is the dorsal which has to do with the where. (141) A perfect example of orthography is when a student is trying to spell a word. It is easier to write down the word and then say it because of visual