The brains of Romanian orphans
Curious what love, attention and stimulation do for a child’s brain? Start with this piece on the Romanian orphans....
read moreBeing “good at math” not an innate skill
Research on Norwegian students of average age 10.5 years found that practice, no innate math skills, makes you good at math....
read moreComputers change the way we learn
A research team has shown that using a mouse changes the way the brain generalizes movements....
read moreComputer model shows how brain learns new skills
Neuroscientists from MIT have designed a new computer model to show how the brain can learn a new task while retaining similar old ones....
read moreNonconcussion head impacts change brain, lower test scores
Even (repeated) head impacts that don’t result in a concussion can cause changes in the brain’s white matter and affect cognitive ability....
read moreModified Mirror Neuron System can alter visual perception
A team from Arizona State University has found that our mirror neuron system can be modified by language and that, in turn, can change visual perception....
read moreExcited better than calm for test performance
Getting excited before a test improves performance better than trying to calm down. Experiments at Harvard showed that performance on anxiety-inducing activities, like public speaking an math tests, are improved when students get excited because they are thinking about...
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