A Philosophical, Historical, and Scientific Perspective on Child Neurological Development
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motor activity, neurodevelopment, Philosophy.Abstract
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Introduction: The relationship between the body and the mind has been a subject of reflection since philosophy, the mother of human knowledge, which has found support in the discoveries of neuroscience, revealing the impact of physical activity on child neurological development.
Objective: To analyze the influence of physical activity on child neurological development from philosophical, historical, and scientific perspectives.
Methods: Under a dialectical-materialist approach, an observational, descriptive, and correlational study was conducted, involving a documentary review of philosophical texts and scientific articles. These texts address the relationship between the body and the mind. In addition, a systematization of educational practices related to physical exercise was carried out, as well as of the main theories of child neurological development.
Results: The study confirmed the convergence of philosophy and neuroscience in the relationship between the body and the mind, demonstrating that physical movement stimulates the development of cognitive functions in childhood. From a phenomenological perspective, the body is the means that enables the child's relationship with the surrounding world, thus favoring child neurological development.
Conclusions: Physical activity in childhood constitutes a formative experience that articulates the body and the mind in the process of personality development, since bodily movement plays a fundamental role in neurological development, promoting cognitive functions linked to the emotional and social integration of the child.
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