Comprender el Cerebro Adolescente: Descubrimientos en Neurociencia y Educación

Passives

• They are known to generate colossal revenue on YouTube and iterate endlessly on Tik Tok.
• "Oversimplified headlines" and adults' obsession with teenage vulnerability have led to a fundamental misunderstanding of recent science.
• The report is part of a growing effort by nonprofits, scientists and policy scholars to reframe how different disciplines, and the general public, think about adolescence.
• "If the adolescent brain is really good at learning from rewards, driving the kinds of behaviors that otherwise make adults so nervous, we should exploit that to help them learn."
• "If parents and educators can tap into that, they'll help them learn from their mistakes rather than jumping straight to punishment."
• "While the prefrontal cortex remained important for adolescent neuroscience, recent research has also focused on the regions that contribute to adolescents' socioemotional development and the understanding that these regions don't develop in isolation."

Conditional sentences

• If they learn second languages and sonatas.
• It's true that the "emotional" and "rational" parts of teens' brains develop at different paces.
• They also add that fixating on the negatives overlooks the very opportunities which can help teens learn and grow.
• "If the adolescent brain is really good at learning from rewards, driving the kinds of behaviors that otherwise make adults so nervous, we should exploit that to help them learn."
• "If parents and educators can tap into that, they'll help them learn from their mistakes rather than jumping straight to punishment."
• "While the prefrontal cortex remained important for adolescent neuroscience, recent research has also focused on the regions that contribute to adolescents' socioemotional development and the understanding that these regions don't develop in isolation."

Relative clauses

• They invent dances, coin slang, lead political movements, make Bookstagrams and draw millions of views to Minecraft and makeup streams.
• From crammed city apartments and the finished basements of exurbia, they are known to generate colossal revenue on YouTube and...valuable start up
• The report is part of a growing effort by nonprofits, scientists and policy scholars to reframe how different disciplines, and the general public, think about adolescence.
• "the striatum, a region associated with reward-seeking behavior"
• "the hippocampus, associated with learning and memory"
• "the National Academies report, to which Williams contributed"
• "adolescents, whose sensitivity to rewards means they may not simply ignore risks"
• "environments, which can change an adolescent's growth for better or for worse"

Modals

• Why don't teenagers get more credit?
• That has frustrated some researchers, who claim that "Oversimplified headlines" and adults' obsession with teenage vulnerability have led to a fundamental misunderstanding of recent science.
• Researchers say that that's not necessarily a bad thing.
• "We should exploit that to help them learn."
• "Parents and educators can tap into that."
• "It doesn't have to mean lifting all limits on adolescent behavior or dismissing risks altogether."

Reported speech

• Adriana Galván, director of UCLA's Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory, also affirms that the "fearlessness" that concerns adults is exactly what makes adolescents thrive in the space of creativity and enacting social change.
• "Galan said that while the prefrontal cortex remained important for adolescent neuroscience, recent research had also focused on the regions that contribute to adolescents' socioemotional development and the understanding that these regions don't develop in isolation."
• "Williams said that while she believed in the promise of adolescence and that adolescence is a time of opportunity, it didn't mean there weren't also those huge realistic challenges."

Paraules sinònimes

• Fundamental: Essential, crucial, key.
• Sprawling: Expansive, extensive, vast.
• Forefront: Vanguard, forefront, leading edge.
• Thriving: Flourishing, prospering, thriving.
• Overlook: Neglect, disregard, ignore.
• Inherently: Intrinsically, inherently, fundamentally.