Learning & Memory

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The Right State of Mind

Recalling skills often depends on returning to your state of mind — or environment — where you first learned it.

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Can You Learn in Your Sleep?

Learning new information isn’t quite so easy as popping in headphones and passively listening to taped lectures while you slumber — not yet, anyway.

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Visual Aphantasia: Memories in Words

People with aphantasia are incapable of forming mental images.

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3 min

Want Children to "Pay Attention"? Make Their Brains Curious!

Learn some tips and techniques for engaging children in the classroom.

Psychology Today

Test Stress in Children: Rx with Brain-Friendly Studying

Let's teach kids more effective ways of studying in order to reduce test anxiety.

Psychology Today

Should Teachers Learn Neuroscience?

Educators may be able to take a different perspective if they understood a bit more of the neuroscience behind learning.

Psychology Today

What Predicts School Performance?

All those open tabs on your internet browser can make it hard to focus — and might even drag down your GPA.

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3 min

What Is Metacognition?

Understanding how your brain works best and knowing how to avoid distractions can improve school performance.

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3 min

Introducing Preschoolers to Science: What Works and What Doesn't

Learn about the importance of introducing children to science at an early age.

Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC)

How the Brain Changes With Age

As we age, we can see our hair gray and our skin wrinkle. Less obvious are the changes happening in our brains.

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Bringing the Science of Learning Into Classrooms

Schools can use neuroscience research to optimize their environments to match the best ways for students to learn.

Edutopia

Is It Time to Kill Annual Testing?

What if schools completely did away with standardized testing?

Education Week

How Your Brain Processes Information

Memories of failed attempts and false starts while learning to ride a bike may remain, but it likely all feels natural now. For that, you can thank the intricate circuits comprising your nervous system.

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