From the Baylor College of Medicine press release: Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reveal that astrocytes, the most abundant cells in the brain, play a direct role in the… Read more »
From the Frontiers press release: Children have an insatiable appetite to understand why things are the way they are, leading to their apt description as “little scientists.” While researchers have… Read more »
From the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz press release: The Internet and social media are among the most frequently used sources of information today. Students, too, often prefer online information rather… Read more »
From the Baylor University press release: College students who listened to classical music by Beethoven and Chopin during a computer-interactive lecture on microeconomics — and heard the music played again… Read more »
From the Washington State University press release: When teachers use a funny joke, a cat video or even background music in their lessons, it can keep students from understanding the… Read more »
From the CNRS press release: Even before uttering their first words, babies master the grammar basics of their mother tongue. Thus eight-month-old French infants can distinguish function words, or functors… Read more »
From the University of Missouri-Columbia press release: Technology has shifted the way that professors teach students in higher education. For example, by uploading recorded lectures online, students can reference a… Read more »
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release: A new longitudinal study of fifth and sixth graders in Germany examined the relation between classmates’ gender stereotypes and individual… Read more »
From the Ohio State University press release: Researchers — and parents — have long known that babies learn to speak by mimicking the words they hear. But a new study… Read more »
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München press release: Learners of foreign languages can hear the errors in pronunciation that fellow learners tend to make, but continue to fall foul of them themselves… Read more »
