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Learning a New Skill Can Be Hard. Here’s How to Set Yourself Up for Success
This is one of my favorite questions to ask people: What was the last thing you taught yourself how to do? I (Rommel) like it because the answers are usually less about the actual skill Visit Page
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A Real Talking Point: Bilingual Children Are Not Smarter Than Others
Remember how we all thought bilingual kids were smarter because they knew two languages? It turns out that’s not true, say researchers at Western University. J. Bruce Morton and Cassandra Lowe, who work at the Visit Page
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The Littlest Linguists: New Research on Language Development
New research on language acquisition, bilingualism, and speech perception. Visit Page
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Lila Gleitman, Who Showed How Children Learn Language, Dies at 91
Lila Gleitman, whose pioneering work in linguistics and cognitive science expanded our understanding of how language works and how children go about learning it, died on Aug. 8 at a hospital in Philadelphia. She was Visit Page
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on managing emotions, infant language learning, the effects of handwriting on learning, the role of emotion on memory, bilingualism, cultural contexts and stress responses in preschoolers, children’s information search. patterns. Visit Page
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Handwriting Beats Typing and Watching Videos for Learning to Read
New research published in the journal Psychological Science reveals that handwriting plays a valuable part in language instruction, helping people learn certain skills far faster than they can by typing or watching videos. Visit Page
