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Not a ‘Math Person’? You may be Better at Learning to Code than You Think

March 3, 2020
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Seattle, WA — Want to learn to code? Put down the math book. Practice those communication skills instead. New research from the University of Washington finds that a natural aptitude for learning...

New Link Between Fear, Imitation, and Antisocial Behaviour in Children

January 6, 2020
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Philadelphia, PA — Why do some children have more difficulties understanding others’ emotions or feeling sorry after misbehaving? Why do some act out in certain situations and behave in others?...

By Imaging Brain, Scientists can Predict Person’s Aptitude for Training

December 5, 2019
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Champaign, IL — People with specific brain attributes are more likely than others to benefit from targeted cognitive interventions designed to enhance fluid intelligence, scientists report in a new...

Childhood Chores not Related to Self-Control Development

November 5, 2019
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Houston, TX — Although assigning household chores is considered an essential component of child-rearing, it turns out they might not help improve children’s self-control, a coveted personality...

Discovering Biological Mechanisms Enabling Pianists to Achieve Skillful Fingering

September 12, 2019
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Kawaguchi, Japan — In Japan Science and Technology Agency’s Strategic Basic Research Programs, Dr. Masato Hirano of Sony Computer Science Laboratories and his colleagues discovered a sensorimotor...

Lessons in Learning

September 5, 2019
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Cambridge, MA — For decades, there has been evidence that active learning – classroom techniques designed to get students to participate in the learning process – produces better educational...

‘Blowfish Effect’: Children Learn New Words Like Adults Do, Say Researchers

July 30, 2019
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Princeton, NJ — Even young children know what typical dogs and fish look like — and they apply that knowledge when they hear new words, reports a team from the Princeton Baby Lab, where researchers...

Do Teaching and Communicating About Microfluidics Advances Need Improvement?

July 9, 2019
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Washington, DC — Microfluidics and learning-on-a-chip research — involving the manipulation of small amounts of fluids to run miniaturized experiments in physics, chemistry, biology and medicine...

Cartoons are Appropriate for Developing Children’s Narrative Skills and Values

July 8, 2019
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Vizcaya, Spain — Media consumption by schoolchildren in the 3rd year (8-9 year-olds) and 6th year (11-12 year-olds) of Primary Education, their narrative skills and the perceptions they have about...

Music Students Score Better in Math, Science, English Than Non-Musical Peers

June 26, 2019
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Washington, DC — High schoolers who take music courses score significantly better on exams in certain other subjects, including math and science, than their non-musical peers, according to a study...

‘Doing Science,’ Rather Than ‘Being Scientists,’ More Encouraging to Those Underrepresented in the Field

May 14, 2019
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New York, NY — Over the course of a school year, elementary school children lose confidence that they can “be scientists,” but remain more confident that they can “do science,”...

Learning Language

May 9, 2019
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Newark, DE — For most native English-speakers, learning the Mandarin Chinese language from scratch is no easy task. Learning it in a class that essentially compresses a one-semester college course...

High School Students Publish Paper with RIT Scientists Analyzing Rare Bacterium

April 30, 2019
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Rochester, NY — Three high school students working in a science lab for the first time made a surprising discovery with a Rochester Institute of Technology professor. Now, the young women are co-authors...

Experiences of Nature Boost Children’s Learning

April 16, 2019
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Urbana, IL — Spending time in nature boosts children’s academic achievement and healthy development, concludes a new analysis examining hundreds of studies. Ming Kuo, associate professor in...

Trials Testing New Educational Methods in Schools ‘Often Fail to Produce Useful Evidence’

March 18, 2019
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York, UK — Educational trials aimed at boosting academic achievement in schools are often uninformative, new research suggests. The new study, published in the journal Educational Researcher,...

Three Ways Studying Organic Chemistry Changes Brain

March 7, 2019
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Pittsburgh, PA — Academic learning is about gaining new knowledge and skill, but only recently has it been possible to see new knowledge appear in a human brain. A new study from...

Singing for Science: How Arts can Help Students who Struggle Most

March 5, 2019
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Baltimore, MD — Incorporating the arts–rapping, dancing, drawing–into science lessons can help low-achieving students retain more knowledge and possibly help students of all ability levels...

Learning New Vocabulary During Deep Sleep

February 2, 2019
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Bern, Switzerland — Sleeping time is sometimes considered unproductive time. This raises the question whether the time spent asleep could be used more productively – e.g. for learning a new language?...

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