From the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care press release: When trying to memorize information, it is better to relate it to something meaningful rather than repeat it again and again to make it stick, according to…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Multitasking while studying may impair overall memory for the study material, but your ability to strategically identify and remember the most important information may stay intact, according to…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: About 20 percent of children in the United States have difficulty learning to read, and educators have devised a variety of interventions to try to help them. Not…
From the Brigham and Women’s Hospital press release: Previous research has analyzed variations in sleep patterns including number of hours slept, quality of sleep, and sleep-wake times, and found an association with cognitive impairments, health and…
From the Oregon State University press release: Developing a child’s social and emotional learning skills in early childhood is seen as a key to the child’s success in school, but researchers are still working to understand…
From the University of Texas at Austin press release: School programs designed to educate children and adolescents on how to understand and manage emotions, relationships and academic goals must go beyond improving the skills of…
From the Canadian Association for Neuroscience press release: We all want to improve our memory, but research unveiled by the University of Toronto’s Dr. Katherine Duncan today shows that we need to switch our strategies. Memory…
From the University of California – Berkeley press release: A University of California, Berkeley, study of mice reveals, for the first time, how puberty hormones might impede some aspects of flexible youthful learning. “We have found…
From the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center press release: While reading to children has many benefits, simply speaking the words aloud may not be enough to improve cognitive development in preschoolers. A new international study,…
From the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics press release: Reading is such a new ability in human evolutionary history that the existence of a ‘reading area’ could not be specified in our genes. A kind of…