If you’ve ever gone hiking and reached a fork in the trail, you may be confronted with two triangles: one pointing right, one pointing left. You know the direction they’re pointing has meaning, but at…
From the University of Illinois media release: Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign have uncovered evidence that could reshape how researchers think about both the brain and artificial intelligence. Their findings suggest that…
From the Picower Institute at MIT media release: Life is full of processes to learn and then relearn when they become more elaborate. One day you log in to an app with just a password,…
From the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health press release: Children exposed to elevated levels of air pollution may be more likely to have poor inhibitory control during late childhood and poor academic skills…
From the Johns Hopkins University press release: Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers, a new study finds we shouldn’t be so quick to throw away the pencils and…
From the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology press release: Children learn a huge number of words in the early preschool years. A two-year-old might be able to say just a handful of words, while…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: Small children learn language at a pace far faster than teenagers or adults. One explanation for this learning advantage comes not from differences between children and adults, but…
From the Rutgers University press release: Preschool children are sensitive to the gap between how much they know and how much there is to learn, according to a Rutgers University-New Brunswick study. The research, published…
From the University of Colorado Denver press release: A new study found higher education students are more engaged and motivated when they are taught using playful pedagogy rather than the traditional lecture-based method. The study…
From the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry press release: The University of Alberta-led research followed more than 400 infants from the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) at its Edmonton site. Boys with a…