{"id":1418,"date":"2025-03-04T21:49:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/?page_id=1418"},"modified":"2025-03-04T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:49:25","slug":"transcript-mustard-optimizing-brain-stimulation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/transcript-mustard-optimizing-brain-stimulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript Mustard \u2013 optimizing brain stimulation \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question that comes up is why should people who are going to work with early childhood, why should they understand brain development? I guess the primary reason is that how you set up the experience for the infant and toddler and young child has a huge effect on brain development. So if you understand the story and the scientific basis behind this, then you\u2019ll appreciate that the problem-based learning i.e., play, that an infant or toddler is in engaged in should be optimizing maximum stimulation to the brain through a variety of sensing pathways. So if you watch all young animals, by the way, contact for them is important. They certainly look at you in the eye, watching a kitten in my household watches my eyes in spades.&nbsp; All these are sensing systems that go in and so the last thing I like to see is when I watch kids who are in a day care centre being pushed in a cart with the kids all looking forward, not looking back to the pusher, and the pusher is not talking to them.&nbsp; So if you think about optimizing of signals to the brain for its development, then the arrangement you set for the child will be different than if you don\u2019t understand brain development.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question that comes up is why should people who are going to work with early childhood, why should they understand brain development? I guess the primary reason is that how you set up the experience for the infant and toddler and young child has a huge effect on brain development. So if you understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1418","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1418\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}