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(Lia Commissar) Hi! This morning

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I'm going to talk about education and
neuroscience,

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both generally as a field 
that's developing

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but also, the specific work 
that we've been doing in this field.

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The Wellcome Trust -- OK --

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the Wellcome Trust, for those of you
who don't know,

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is the second largest charitable 
foundation globally,

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with the aim of improving health.

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And it does that by funding lots of
bio-medical research, but also

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by funding work in the social science
and humanities,

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funding lots of education work,
doing lots of engagement work

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and also lots of policy work.

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So I'm going to talk through a few things
this morning.

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Firstly, what has neuroscience got to do
with education?

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What impact does it have on education
at the moment?

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The work that we've been doing and then,
thinking about the future.

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So, what has neuroscience got to do
with education?

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Well, if education is about 
learning something,

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be it knowledge or a skill,

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and neuroscience is the study of 
the nervous system and the brain,

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then they're pretty linked, in my opinion.

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And it's not new to kind of talk about
the brain, in relation to education. 1:13