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Psychologists reveal the un, deux, trois of learning a second languageParlez-vous français? If you were quick at learning foreign languages at school, it could be because your brain has an enhanced ability to remember sequences. Psychologists at the University of Sussex have been investigating bilingualism and have found that adults who speak fluently in more ...
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Gestures Lend A Hand In Learning Mathematics; Hand Movements Help Create New IdeasScienceDaily (Mar. 6, 2009) — Gesturing helps students develop new ways of understanding mathematics, according to research at the University of Chicago. Scholars have known for a long time that movements help retrieve information about an event or physical activity associated with action. A ...
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Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Scientific AmericanKey Concepts Scientists are finding that the adult human brain is far more malleable than they once thought. Your behavior and environment can cause substantial rewiring of your brain or a reorganization of its functions. Studies have shown that exercise can improve the brain’s executive ...
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Improving Brain Processing Speed Helps MemoryImproving Brain Processing Speed Helps Memory ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, 2009) — Mayo Clinic researchers found that healthy, older adults who participated in a computer-based training program to improve the speed and accuracy of brain processing showed twice the improvement in certain aspects of ...
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Playing a Memory Game to Improve Intelligence and Increase Your IQ Score?A game that trains your working memory also increases fluid intelligence, a study suggests. Try the game for yourself!
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Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthySociety must respond to the growing demand for cognitive enhancement. That response must start by rejecting the idea that 'enhancement' is a dirty word, argue Henry Greely and colleagues.
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Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth ProjectSocial network sites, online games, video-sharing sites, and gadgets such as iPods and mobile phones are now fixtures of youth culture. They have so permeated young lives that it is hard to believe that less than a decade ago these technologies barely existed. Today’s youth may be coming of age ...
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Learning to share learning - an exploration of methods to improve and share learningA report prepared for the UK Commission for Health Improvement. March 2003 This report is an illustrated literature review drawing on studies in the fields of education, psychology, organisational learning, personal learning, and participatory approaches to explore understanding of good ...
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Improving Long-term Learning Through Spacing Of LessonsCombine the aphorisms that "practice makes perfect" and "timing is everything" into one and you might get something resembling findings published in this month's issue of Psychological Science. Proper spacing of lessons, the researchers report, can dramatically enhance learning. And larger gaps ...
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School's Over - Learning Spaces in Europe in 2020. An Imagining Exercise on the Future of Learning“Learning Spaces” (LS) is the term used in a report published in 2006 by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, “as a way to embrace a different view of future learning”. This report moves the discussion of Learning Spaces forward by refining the concept and linking it to possible ...
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