From the AFTAU press release: Glia cells, named for the Greek word for “glue,” hold the brain’s neurons together and protect the cells that determine our thoughts and behaviors, but… Read more »
From the Pennsylvania State University press release: Students with learning disabilities often have difficulty with basic academic skills, such as reading, as well as with organizational and study skills. For… Read more »
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Two vital parts of mentally organizing the world are classification, or the understanding that similar things belong in the same category; and… Read more »
From the Oregon State University press release: A study of 20 elementary schools in Hawaii has found that a focused program to build social, emotional and character skills resulted in… Read more »
From the Ohio State University press release by Jeff Grabmeier: New research challenges the conventional thinking that young children use language just as adults do to help classify and understand… Read more »
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: When grown-ups and kids speak, they listen to the sound of their voice and make corrections based on that auditory feedback. But… Read more »
From the Wellcome Trust press release via EurekAlert!: Acquiring ‘the Knowledge’ – the complex layout of central London’s 25,000 streets and thousands of places of interest – causes structural changes… Read more »
From the National Science Foundation press release: New research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano,… Read more »
From the Friedrich Miescher Institute of Biomedical Research press release via MedicalXpress: A team of neurobiologists around Andreas Lüthi at the Friedrich Miescher Institute of Biomedical Research has shown for… Read more »
From the SUNY Buffalo press release: If you’ve ever spent the day after Christmas rifling through the user’s manual of a new device, you’ll be interested to know that intense,… Read more »
