From the Japan Science and Technology Agency press release: In JST Strategic Basic Research Programs, Drs. Masato Hirano and Shinichi Furuya, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., discovered a training method to further improve the delicate…
From the Lancaster University press release: How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by Lancaster University researchers, who say this is similar to the way in which young children learn…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Learning a language later in life changes how the two halves of the brain contribute. As skills improve, language comprehension changes hemisphere specialization, but production does not, according…
From the University of Exeter press release: The human ability to teach and our use of complex tools may have evolved together, according to new research. The improvement of technologies across generations, known as “cumulative…
From the University of Tsukuba press release: Social rewards such as praise are known to enhance various stages of the learning process. Now, researchers from Japan have found that praise delivered by artificial beings such…
From the University of Eastern Finland press release: Teacher-perceived conflict predicts lower interest and pre-academic skills in math and literacy among kindergarteners, a new study from Finland shows. Kindergarten represents a crucial context in which…
From the RUDN University press release: A team of linguists from RUDN University established that a person’s ability to accurately differentiate between vowel sounds of a foreign language correlates with the size of their vocabulary…
From the University of Cambridge press release: A brain chemical called noradrenaline is responsible for our responses to uncertain situations – helping us to learn quickly and adapt our behaviour, a new study has found.…
From the Ohio State University press release: Humans are born with a part of the brain that is prewired to be receptive to seeing words and letters, setting the stage at birth for people to…
From the University of South Australia press release: International expert in creativity and innovation, UniSA’s Professor David Cropley, is calling for Australian schools and universities to increase their emphasis on teaching creativity, as new research…