Question

Explain the parts of the brain that are involved in learning​

Answer 1

Which parts of the brain are involved in learning? Pretty much all of them.

Which parts are involved in teaching? Depends on what you mean by teaching.

Learning is best defined (from the brain’s perspective) as a change in behaviour as a result of experience. And behaviour is any public ally observable action. So the basic mechanisms are similar for all these things: learning school facts, learning to not touch hot things, learning to speak, learning to walk, learning to see, and learning to breathe. So all parts of the brain involved in behaviour are involved in learning.

Teaching? Like a school teacher or like a parent helping their child learn to speak or walk? Since we humans place a lot of emphasis on speaking and listening, then those areas involved in verbal processing are the ones that are heavily involved. But you have to remember stuff you want to teach, and figure out how to present it. That process heavily uses you cerebral cortex - probably most of it.

So if it’s just verbal learning and verbal teaching you are talking about, then yes, probably it’s the same parts involved in both activities, but the parts include all of the cortex and certainly some subcortical structures too, like the hippocampus. And anything related to reinforcement, which is both cortical and subcortical.