Annotated Bibliography on Learning Environment and Cognitive Child Development

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Article 1:
Baroncelli, L., Braschi, C., Spolidoro, M., Begenisic, T., Sale, A., & Maffei, L. (2010).
Nurturing brain plasticity: impact of environmental enrichment. Cell death and
differentiation, 17(7), 1092.
This article by Baroncelli et al. (2010) is focused on the influence of Environment
Enrichment (EE) on the development and nurturing of brain plasticity. It is to mention that
the life-long capacity of brain for experience-dependent plasticity that allows the adaptation
to the new environments and to the environmental changes, such as takes place in brain
damage. The paper discussed about the various impacts of the EE on the neuronal and
behaviour function that are further followed by the review of structural and molecular
changes that account for the EE-dependent plasticity in the normal brain. Both the younger
and the older group choose the high value words when compared to the low value ones. The
researcher team of this study have focused on several important aspects of the learning
behaviours of the different age groups. This study have revealed that both the age groups are
highly sensitive towards high value items and they spend more time on it and at the same
time, also on its process of recalling. Notwithstanding this fact, it is to mention that process
of recalling and the age differences are decreased to the highest value words. Older age group
people lay much emphasis on the high values and then recalls them before any test. The
findings of this study by Baroncelli et al. (2010) have shed light on the capacity of EE as a
non-invasive strategy for ameliorate deficits in the growth and development of CNS and for
treating the neurological issues or disorders. It is to note that the main strength of this article
lies in the fact that it has used applied methodology of research and is an exploratory based
that is based on primary data. The findings of this article could be easily implemented in the
early childhood education as it is providing a deep insight into the fact why the older adults
lay much emphasis on higher value items in their respective learning environment. However,

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a significant weakness of this article is that is focused on a particular age group. This is why
it can be said that this findings cannot be implemented to the general populations. It is to
mention that the finding of this article could be used in the early childhood education as it
helps in providing a deep insight the nature of old people and why they value higher value
items. Educators could implement the findings of this article in the process of education. For
example, the older adults could give more priority on the information and details that one has
to recall and remember first in the situation of self-learning. As the aging decline, the overall
memory of an individual, but the strategy of the self-regulated learning could help in
remembering the key information and points.
Article 2:
Herrmann, P. A., French, J. A., DeHart, G. B., & Rosengren, K. S. (2013). Essentialist
reasoning and knowledge effects on biological reasoning in young
children. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 59(2), 198-220.
The authors Herrmann et al. (2013) in this article have investigated on how children
of diverse age range i.e., from 3, 4 and 7 years children’s reason regarding the biological and
non-biological mechanisms of change. The main focus on this study on analysing the
perceptions of children towards change in biological and non-biological aspects of the world.
The research team of this research study, Hermann, French, DeHart and Rosengren are of the
aim for examining whether reasoning of children regarding life-span change as a biological
process is affected by the change level. With the same, they also examined how the reasoning
of children regarding the types of changes are influenced by their age and development of
their knowledge. The main strength of this study is that it is experimental research. The
article started with providing a brief review of the modern perspectives on the concept of
psychological essentialism. A total of two studies were conducted for examining the impact