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Brain Imaging Predicts Language Learning in Deaf Children

Brain Imaging Predicts Language Learning in Deaf Children

MRI brain scans can predict language improvement after a cochlear implant, laying the foundation for creation of brain specific therapy.

 

Posted in School Readiness, Social Skills

Before-school physical activity program helps improve body weight and overall wellness

Before-school physical activity program helps improve body weight and overall wellness

Children participating in a 12-week, before-school physical activity program experienced improvement in body weight and social/emotional wellness, compared with their classmates who did not participate. 
Posted in Education, Engagement, Health & Wellness, Motivation, Movement & Exercise

Intentional teaching makes the biggest impact on early childhood outcomes

Intentional teaching makes the biggest impact on early childhood outcomes

A comprehensive review of research on several measures of the quality of early childhood education suggests that the instructional practices of preschool teachers have the largest impact on young children’s academic and social skills. The review helps untangle a complicated knot of factors that affect young children.
Posted in Education, Handwriting, Mathematics, Reading Skills, School Readiness

Mirror neuron activity predicts people’s decision-making in moral dilemmas

Mirror neuron activity predicts people’s decision-making in moral dilemmas

Mirror neurons play a vital role in how people learn through mimicry and feel empathy for others. Researchers found that the brain’s inferior frontal cortex is more active in people who are more averse to harming others when facing moral dilemmas.
Posted in Neuroscience

Lessons in nature boost classroom engagement afterward, researchers report

Lessons in nature boost classroom engagement afterward, researchers report

Third-graders who spend a class session in a natural outdoor setting are more engaged and less distracted in their regular classroom afterward than when they remain indoors, scientists found in a new study.
Posted in Attention, Education, Engagement

Brain Imaging Predicts Language Learning in Deaf Children

Brain Imaging Predicts Language Learning in Deaf Children

MRI brain scans can predict language improvement after a cochlear implant, laying the foundation for creation of brain specific therapy.

 

Posted in Neuroscience, School Readiness

A ‘touching sight’: How babies’ brains process touch builds foundations for learning

A ‘touching sight’: How babies’ brains process touch builds foundations for learning

Touch is the first of the five senses to develop, yet scientists know far less about the baby’s brain response to touch than to, say, the sight of ...
Posted in Social Skills

China’s scholastic success could begin with storybooks, research suggests

China’s scholastic success could begin with storybooks, research suggests

There is a widely held perception – and some research to affirm it – that East Asian schools outperform schools in North America. A recent study published by UC Riverside psychologist Cecilia Cheung skirts the link between storybooks and school performance, but asserts that the lessons taught in Chinese schools could start early.
Posted in Education, Engagement, Reading Skills, School Readiness, Social Skills

Study Reads Between the Lines in Children's Vocabulary Differences

Study Reads Between the Lines in Children's Vocabulary Differences

A new study from the Callier Center for Communication Disorders at The University of Texas at Dallas found these differences in vocabulary growth among grade school children of different socioeconomic statuses are likely related to differences in the process of word learning.
Posted in Education, Language, Learning & Memory, Reading Skills, School Readiness

Insight into how infants learn to walk

Insight into how infants learn to walk

Ten-week-old babies can learn from practicing walking months before they begin walking themselves say researchers
Posted in Learning & Memory, Movement & Exercise, Neuroscience

Intervention offered in kindergarten readiness program boosts children’s self-regulation skills

Intervention offered in kindergarten readiness program boosts children’s self-regulation skills

Adding a daily 20 to 30 minute self-regulation intervention to a kindergarten readiness program significantly boosted children’s self-regulation and early academic skills, an Oregon State University researcher has found.
Posted in Attention, Education, Engagement, Movement & Exercise, School Readiness

‘Mind’s eye blink’ proves ‘paying attention’ is not just a figure of speech

‘Mind’s eye blink’ proves ‘paying attention’ is not just a figure of speech

When your attention shifts from one place to another, your brain blinks. The blinks are momentary unconscious gaps in visual perception and came as a surprise to the team of Vanderbilt psychologists who discovered the phenomenon while studying the benefits of attention

 

Posted in Attention, Engagement, Learning & Memory, Neuroscience