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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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Helping Students Develop Executive Function Skills

Read this to discover some simple strategies to assist students with time management and other executive functions.

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The Dos and Don'ts of Classroom Decorations

You might think that having lots of colorful posters in your classroom will aid students but this may not be true in reality. Read more to find out why.

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Research-Tested Benefits of Breaks

Learn about the benefits that short but frequent breaks can have on easily distracted students.

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Does Brain Training Support Healthy Cognitive Aging?

Online “brain-training” games claim to help strengthen your mental muscles through regular practice. But scientists haven’t found conclusive evidence that brain-training works.

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The Neuroscience of Learning, Memory, and Emotions

Our capacity to learn and remember and to feel a range of emotions all arise from signaling in distinct regions of the brain.

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Dialogues Between Neuroscience and Society: Music and the Brain

Pat Metheny discusses music’s impact on the brain; the process of creativity in music, art, and science; and the role of music in healing.

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Mossy Cells

This small group of cells help regulate your memories.

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Our Students Face an Attention Crisis: Understanding their Distracted Minds

Dr. Larry Rosen shows why he believes student distratction is a function of poor metacognition, boredom, and nomophobia.

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What is Deja Vu?

Scientists think déjà vu might be a hiccup in the process of memory consolidation.

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Storing Memories in Your Synapses

Your ability to recall the color of your childhood home depends on long-lasting changes to the connections between nerve cells.

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What is Normal Cognitive Aging?

Denise Park breaks down what happens to the brain and cognition as we get older.

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Complexity Turns the Wheels of Memory

Complex networks of brain structures make sense of all the information from our senses to create and store memories that can last a lifetime.

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