LearningRx1 Learning | http://www.learningrx.org - Part 55

Nap after learning helps toddlers

May 12, 2014 by

Sleep plays a vital role in memory and learning, whether you’re an infant, toddler, child, teen or adult. Infants and preschoolers who took naps soon after learning something were better able to generalize after sleep than those who did...

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Spatial attention and object-based attention use similar mechanisms...

May 7, 2014 by

New research says that spatial attention and object-based attention are surprisingly similar and actually use similar mechanisms and related brain regions. Both are governed by the prefrontal cortex, and in object-based attention, the inferior frontal junction (which is in...

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Musical aptitude affected by genes

Apr 30, 2014 by

New research published in “Molecular Psychiatry” indicates that multiple regions in the human genome are linked to musical aptitude....

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Superior parenting makes breastfed babies intelligent

Apr 28, 2014 by

A new study out of Brigham Young University says that mothers who breastfeed also tend to respond to their baby’s emotional cues and read to them starting at 9 months of age, and it’s these things that are the...

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Children with dyslexia have more glutamate and choline in brain...

Apr 13, 2014 by

A new Yale study has found that young reading-impaired children have more glutamate and choline in their brains than good readers....

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Visually focused approaches help autistic teens succeed

Apr 5, 2014 by

New research suggests that visually focused approaches will best help teens with autism succeed after high school. These include things like visual schedules and video modeling....

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Hand gesturing during math lessons increases understanding

Apr 2, 2014 by

New research from the University of Chicago Department of Psychology found that children who used their hands to gesture during math lessons better understood the problems they were taught....

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