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How Too Much Motivation Can Affect Decision Making

How Too Much Motivation Can Affect Decision Making

Researchers reveal why a level of motivation that is too high or too low can affect our perception and therefore our choices.
Posted in Attention, Education, Engagement, Motivation, Neuroscience

Teaching Self Regulation: Is Earlier Better?

Teaching Self Regulation: Is Earlier Better?

Researchers explore the long-term effects of teaching self-regulation skills in young students.
Posted in Attention, Education, Motivation, Neuroscience

How to Boost Emotional Development and Learning Engagement Before Kindergarten

How to Boost Emotional Development and Learning Engagement Before Kindergarten

Preschoolers who did this on a regular basis demonstrated more success in emotional development, learning engagement and academic performance across the kindergarten year.
Posted in Education, Health & Wellness, Neuroscience, School Readiness, Social Development

A Boost to Executive Function in Early Childhood

A Boost to Executive Function in Early Childhood

Researchers explore whether adherence to American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for diet and physical activity had any relationship with toddlers’ executive function.

Posted in Attention, Motivation, Movement & Exercise, Neuroscience, Social Development

iPad Assessments on StepUp

iPad Assessments on StepUp

Use the StepUp to Learn iPad Assessments to measure growth in student achievement
Posted in Neuroscience, Technology

Can ‘Random Noise’ Unlock Our Learning Potential?

Can ‘Random Noise’ Unlock Our Learning Potential?

Though many of us may seek a quiet place in which to study, ‘noise’ may play a key role in helping some people improve their learning potential.
Posted in Attention, Education, Engagement, Neuroscience, Technology

What You Know Changes How You See Things

What You Know Changes How You See Things

Which brain regions process objects? It depends on what we know about its purpose.
Posted in Attention, Learning & Memory, Memory, Neuroscience

Visualization: How Kids 'See' the Story Beyond the Pictures

Visualization: How Kids 'See' the Story Beyond the Pictures

Visualization is essential to reading comprehension. Researchers discover a simple way to boost it at home.
Posted in Education, Language, Neuroscience, Reading Skills, Speech

Teaching Spatial Thinking Boosts Verbal Reasoning

Teaching Spatial Thinking Boosts Verbal Reasoning

New findings could not only upend how educators craft curricula, but reveals a hidden link in the human mind. 
Posted in Education, Language, Neuroscience, Speech

How Consistent Practice Improves Learning

How Consistent Practice Improves Learning

Researchers discover how the brain changes with consistent practice, and what could be the first step toward new strategies to improve and speed up learning.
Posted in Education, Learning & Memory, Memory, Neuroscience, School Readiness

Learning to Enjoy Cognitive Effort

Learning to Enjoy Cognitive Effort

Researchers challenge a common assumption and find that challenging cognitive activities can be experienced as rewarding and valuable.
Posted in Education, Engagement, Motivation, Neuroscience

Slow Learner? It Could Be From Long-Term Stress

Slow Learner? It Could Be From Long-Term Stress

Long-term stress -- to which children are increasingly exposed -- can potentially cause serious damage to the brain, according to a new study.

Posted in Education, Health & Wellness, Language, Movement & Exercise, Neuroscience, School Readiness, Speech