Emotional difficulties among young people have increased, particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic. In this context, developing social and emotional skills can help strengthen their ability to cope with challenges. A team from the University of…
Social cohesion is the glue that holds society together. Now the bonds are breaking, and polarization has been growing for years. Educational programmes aimed at strengthening social cohesion by promoting greater tolerance very often focus…
The prefrontal cortex, a brain region long associated with learning more flexible behaviors, can sometimes block the ability to think outside the box, a new study in mice shows. Science Advances published the finding by…
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…