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Study suggests students who listened to Beethoven during lecture – and in dreamland – did better on test

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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 »

Study suggests different role for technology in higher education

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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 »

Study suggests gender stereotypes may negatively affect boys’ reading skills

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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 »

Study examines the perception of pronounciation in learners of foreign languages

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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 »

Study suggests novelty speeds up learning thanks to dopamine activation

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From the VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) press release: Brain scientists led by Sebastian Haesler (NERF, empowered by IMEC, KU Leuven and VIB) have identified a causal mechanism of… Read more »