Research -- StepUp to Learn
A Fair Reward Ensures a Good Memory
By studying the brain’s reward and memory networks, neuroscientists find that memory requires a system of reward delivery. A new finding highly relevant for a variety of learning situations.
Telling Stories Using Rhythmic Gesture Helps Children Improve Oral Skills
For the first time it has been shown that a brief training session with rhythmic gestures has immediate benefits for narrative discourse in children of 5 and 6 years of age.
Enrichment Programs Help Children Build Knowledge
New research suggests enrichment programs help children solidify the information they have added to their wall of knowledge and may help prevent summer slide.
Moderate Exercise Can Benefit Memory Performance
Moderate intensity exercise such as brisk walking, water aerobics or cycling can have the most beneficial effect on memory performance.
Testing During Studying Improves Memory and Inference
Learning something new? Take a test! Research shows that taking a test is more effective than other ways of studying when learning and making inferences.
A New Method for Boosting the Learning of Mathematics
Researchers oversaw a new system of maths learning whose purpose is to promote the use of arithmetic formulas at an early age. After a year, they observed a leap in students’ performance.
Aerobic exercise improves cognition, even in young adults
Aerobic exercise training increases cognitive processes important for reasoning, planning, and problem-solving.
The ‘Blowfish Effect’: Children Learn New Words Like Adults Do
Even young children know what typical dogs and fish look like — and they apply that knowledge when they hear new words.
Preschoolers Who Watch TV Sleep Less
Preschoolers who watch TV sleep significantly less than those who don’t, according to new research by University of Massachusetts Amherst neuroscientists.
Separate brain systems cooperate during learning, study finds
Reinforcement learning and working memory, previously interpreted as working independently or as competing with each other in the learning process, may actually work together as people learn new tasks.
How the arts can help students who struggle most
Researchers show that using artistic activities -- such as rhyming, movement, and drawing, -- helps students retain more of what they learn.
Need to remember something? Better draw it, study finds
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have found that drawing pictures of information that needs to be remembered is a strong and reliable strategy to enhance memory.