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How Building Design Impacts Performance

How Building Design Impacts Performance

New research reveals a link between rooms with high ceilings and examination results.

Posted in Education, Neuroscience

The Key to a Balanced Brain

The Key to a Balanced Brain

Researchers found that high performing groups of children and youths had lower amounts of this than their peers of the same age.
Posted in Engagement, Neuroscience

Positive vs Negative Feedback: What's Better for Motivation?

Positive vs Negative Feedback: What's Better for Motivation?

Researchers examining how feedback affects mental effort finds positive feedback boosts confidence, while negative feedback makes tasks seem harder, both boosting motivation. 

Posted in Education, Motivation, Neuroscience

Does Cognitive Control Training Really Work?

Does Cognitive Control Training Really Work?

Training exercises designed to improve cognitive control in children aim to improve their ability to delay gratification and their academic achievement. But do they really work?
Posted in Motivation, Neuroscience, School Readiness

People Without an Inner Voice Have Poorer Verbal Memory

People Without an Inner Voice Have Poorer Verbal Memory

The first researchers to investigate whether the lack of an inner voice has consequences for how people solve problems.
Posted in Memory, Neuroscience

How Practice Forms New Memory Pathways in the Brain

How Practice Forms New Memory Pathways in the Brain

Researchers use novel microscope to reveal how neuron activity changes through repeated training.
Posted in Memory, Neuroscience

Brain Food: A New Link Between Diet and Brain Health

Brain Food: A New Link Between Diet and Brain Health

New research has highlighted a 'profound' link between dietary choices and brain health.
Posted in Neuroscience, Nutrition

Eye-Opener: Pupils Enlarge When People Focus on Tasks

Eye-Opener: Pupils Enlarge When People Focus on Tasks

New study shows how eye sensitivity correlates with working memory.
Posted in Memory, Neuroscience

New Insights Into How the Brain Regulates Emotions

New Insights Into How the Brain Regulates Emotions

New study is among the first of its kind to separate activity relating to emotion generation from emotion regulation in the human brain.
Posted in Neuroscience, Social Development

One-Size-Fits-All Brain-Controlled Gaming

One-Size-Fits-All Brain-Controlled Gaming

New research on brain-computer interfaces to help improve the lives of people with motor disabilities.
Posted in Neuroscience, Technology

A New Link Between Movement and Developmental Language Disorder

A New Link Between Movement and Developmental Language Disorder

A part of the brain associated with movement is abnormal in children with developmental language impairments.

Posted in Language, Neuroscience, Speech

Brain Mechanism Found to Determine Which Memories Last

Brain Mechanism Found to Determine Which Memories Last

Which memories are tagged as important enough to linger in the brain until sleep makes them permanent?
Posted in Memory, Movement & Exercise, Neuroscience