Category: Learning

Study suggests children’s physical activity linked to academic achievement via regulation of emotions

From the PLOS press release: A new study of children in the U.K. suggests that physical activity is linked to emotional regulation in early childhood, which in turn predicts academic… Read more »

Study suggests visual working memory and reasoning tasks help children improve math skills

From the Karolinska Institutet press release: Young children who practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks improve their math skills more than children who focus on spatial rotation exercises, according… Read more »

Study suggests petting therapy dogs enhances thinking skills of stressed college students

From the Washington State University press release: For college students under pressure, a dog may be the best stress fighter around. Programs exclusively focused on petting therapy dogs improved stressed-out… Read more »

Study suggests multilingual people have an advantage over those fluent in only two languages

From the University of Tokyo press release: Multilingual people have trained their brains to learn languages, making it easier to acquire more new languages after mastering a second or third…. Read more »

Study suggests there are measurable changes in brain activity during first few months of studying a new language

From the University of Tokyo press release: A study with first-time learners of Japanese has measured how brain activity changes after just a few months of studying a new language…. Read more »

Study suggests infants’ language skills more advanced than first words suggest

From the University of Edinburgh press release: Babies can recognise combinations of words even before they have uttered their first word, a study suggests, challenging ideas of how children learn… Read more »

Study suggests babies prefer baby talk, whether they’re learning one language or two

From the University of California – Los Angeles press release: It can be hard to resist lapsing into an exaggerated, singsong tone when you talk to a cute baby. And… Read more »