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Need to Improve Focus? This One Habit Can Keep You On Task

Need to Improve Focus? This One Habit Can Keep You On Task

New research provides evidence that this simple and easily implementable change can help individuals better sustain their attention and reduce attention lapses.
Posted in Attention, Motivation

How To Get Students To Think (and Transform Your Classroom)

How To Get Students To Think (and Transform Your Classroom)

After a series of failed attempts at improving students’ problem solving in the classroom, one former teacher came up with the idea of building a ‘thinking classroom’ and a research project designed to find ways to help teachers build it.

Posted in Education, Engagement, Motivation

Flashcards vs Songs: What's Best for Math Fact Fluency?

Flashcards vs Songs: What's Best for Math Fact Fluency?

Fluently retrieving simple multiplication facts improves overall math scores but how can students best reach this fluency?
Posted in Education, Mathematics

Gut-Brain Connection: How Hunger Effects Decision Making

Gut-Brain Connection: How Hunger Effects Decision Making

How a hunger hormone in the gut can directly impact the brain and influence activity. 
Posted in Neuroscience

What an Animated Taco Reveals About Curiosity and Patience

What an Animated Taco Reveals About Curiosity and Patience

New research shows how curiosity can prioritize the journey over the outcome.
Posted in Attention, Education, Engagement, Neuroscience

High Engagement, High Return: The Secret to Student Success

High Engagement, High Return: The Secret to Student Success

What researchers found when they observed real classroom tasks and coded them for student engagement. 
Posted in Education, Engagement, Neuroscience

The Most Significant Predictor of Writing Ability

The Most Significant Predictor of Writing Ability

Researchers discover the key to closing the achievement gap in English learners' writing abilities.

Posted in Education, Language, Learning & Memory, Neuroscience

Research Casts Doubt on This Longtime Academic Practice

Research Casts Doubt on This Longtime Academic Practice

This longtime academic practice has no impact—positive or negative—on reading development for elementary school students.
Posted in Education, Engagement, Language, Motivation

NeuroNet in the News: Shaping Brighter Futures in South Africa

NeuroNet in the News: Shaping Brighter Futures in South Africa

How three primary schools in South Africa are using NeuroNet programs to make strides in education.
Posted in Education

Early Self-Regulation Boosts Children’s Educational Success

Early Self-Regulation Boosts Children’s Educational Success

Teaching children how to manage their attention and impulses in primary school had a positive long-term effect on their later educational success.
Posted in Attention, Education, Motivation, School Readiness, Social Development

Playing with Dad Now Boosts Kids Grades Later

Playing with Dad Now Boosts Kids Grades Later

Fathers can give their children an educational advantage at primary school by reading, drawing and playing with them at an early age.
Posted in Education, School Readiness, Social Development

How Dopamine Hacks Decision Making

How Dopamine Hacks Decision Making

New insight into how dopamine controls learning and decision-making processes.
Posted in Engagement, Motivation, Neuroscience