From the National Research University Higher School of Economics press release: According to Glasgow and HSE/Northumbria researchers, repetition of non-verbs as well as verbs can boost the effect of syntactic priming, i.e. the likelihood of people…
From the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) press release: The ability of the brain to respond and adapt to changes is scientifically called brain plasticity. This ability is the basis of all learning processes.…
From the University of Montreal press release: What pushes a teenager to suddenly drop out of high school? The answer: any number of very stressful “trigger” events that occur in their final few months in…
From the Brown University press release: The idea of sleep is supposed to evoke feelings of peace, relaxation and refreshment, but when expert Mary Carskadon talks about teen sleep in school districts with early start…
From the Ohio State University press release: Although adults can beat children at most cognitive tasks, new research shows that children’s limitations can sometimes be their strength. In two studies, researchers found that adults were…
From the University of Nevada, Reno press release: A new cognitive research study used two new approaches to determine ranges of start times that optimize functioning for undergraduate students. Based on a sample of first…
From the Georgia State University press release: The gap in the high school dropout rate among students of different racial and demographic backgrounds narrows when certain variables, such as socioeconomic status and school size, are…
From the Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine press release: Neurons in the prefrontal cortex “teach” neurons in the hippocampus to “learn” rules that distinguish memory-based predictions in otherwise identical situations, suggesting that…
From the Florida State University press release: When it comes to mathematics, girls rate their abilities markedly lower than boys, even when there is no observable difference between the two, according to Florida State University…
From the Virginia Tech press release: Children who are given high-quality education at an early age — starting at six weeks old and continuing through their first five years of life — are more likely…