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Hearing What We Read
Psychological scientists have discovered new evidence of what goes on in the brain when people read printed words. The scientists, led by Maria Dimitropoulou of the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language, in Donostia
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‘Active’ Student Engagement Goes Beyond Class Behavior, Study Finds
Education Week: Some warning signs are easy to spot: It’s well-established that the kid goofing off in the back of the classroom, who plays hooky and turns in homework late, is disengaged, and at a
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Nice Results, But What Did You Expect?
National Geographic: In 2008, a team of psychologists from the University of Michigan apparently found a simple memory task that could boost intelligence. They asked volunteers to watch a sequence of symbols while listening to
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Early Spatial Reasoning Predicts Later Creativity and Innovation, Especially in STEM Fields
Exceptional spatial ability at age 13 predicts creative and scholarly achievements over 30 years later, according to results from a new longitudinal study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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Brain Differences Are Not Always Deficits
The public can’t seem to learn enough about the brain, judging by the abundance of popular articles, books, and TV programs that seek variously to demystify its inner workings, prevent its decline with aging, or
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Aging Photographs and Cognitive Quilts
The Huffington Post: I am a Baby Boomer and a child of the ’60s, and for both those reasons I am keenly aware of my memory, and its failings. I’m not alone in this. For
