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October 7, 2023

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Language Recognition Is as Much About Brains as It Is About Hearing

Oct. 3, 2023 — Researchers have learned the efficiency by which people recognize spoken words depends as much on the mind as on hearing ability. In a new study, the researchers examined how well adults across the life span process spoken ...

Origin of Cultural Learning: Babies Imitate Because They Are Imitated

Sep. 27, 2023 — A new study shows that babies learn to imitate others because they themselves are imitated by ...

Young Children Do Better at School If Their Dads Read and Play With Them

Sep. 20, 2023 — Fathers can give their children an educational advantage at primary school by reading, drawing and playing with them, according to a newly published ...

Effective Visual Communication of Climate Change

Sep. 20, 2023 — The consequences of a warming climate frequently dominated the news this summer, from devastating wildfires and floods to deadly heat waves across the globe. Reducing harm from climate change is a challenging endeavor, and it requires comprehensive ...

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Breaking in the Black Box of Pedagogical Authority

Sep. 19, 2023 — How does pedagogical authority operate in the classroom? A team has produced one of the first in-depth field studies on this subject. By filming teachers in training over a period of several months, ...

Dopamine Regulates How Quickly and Accurately Decisions Are Made

Sep. 19, 2023 — Computer models provide new insight into how the neurotransmitter dopamine controls learning and decision-making ...

New Research Highlights Importance of Equity in Education

Sep. 18, 2023 — A new study looks at the impact of learning environments on the academic success of racialized students. Compared to their peers, these students feel they have less control in their academic ...

Sleep-Wake Therapy Gives New Hope for Teens With Depression

Sep. 8, 2023 — School systems aren't built for kids who fall asleep and wake up late, the so-called 'night owls,' which may help explain why this group of teens is more prone to ...

Are US Teenagers More Likely Than Others to Exaggerate Their Math Abilities?

Sep. 14, 2023 — A major new study has revealed that American teenagers are more likely than any other nationality to brag about their math ...

Verbal Nonsense Reveals Limitations of AI Chatbots

Sep. 14, 2023 — The era of artificial-intelligence chatbots that seem to understand and use language the way we humans do has begun. Under the hood, these chatbots use large language models, a particular kind of ...

Roadside Hedges Can Reduce Harmful Ultrafine Particle Pollution Around Schools

Sep. 13, 2023 — A new study confirms that planting hedges between roadsides and school playgrounds can dramatically reduce children's exposure to traffic-related ...

Benefits, Risks in State-Mandated School-Based BMI Assessments

Sep. 12, 2023 — A resource economist finds mandated in-school Body Mass Index assessments adopted in varying forms by 24 states to combat childhood obesity have the potential to improve the health of some students ...

In the Age of ChatGPT, What's It Like to Be Accused of Cheating?

Sep. 12, 2023 — A new study looks at how college students react to being accused of using ChatGPT to cheat on ...

Intellectual Disability More Common in Families With Substance Use Disorder

Sep. 7, 2023 — Children of a parent with alcohol or drug use disorder have a greater risk of intellectual disability, even if the problem only lies with the father, researchers report. According to the study, ...

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Increased Risk of Depression and Anxiety When in Higher Education, Study Finds

Sep. 29, 2023 — Young people who are in higher education in England face a small increased risk of depression and anxiety, compared to their peers who are not attending higher education, finds a new ...

Grasping Entropy: Teachers and Students Investigate Thermodynamics Through a Hands-on Model

Sep. 6, 2023 — Though a cornerstone of thermodynamics, entropy remains one of the most vexing concepts to teach budding physicists in the classroom. Physics teachers designed a hand-held model to demonstrate the ...

Active Children Are More Resilient

Sep. 5, 2023 — The school year has hardly begun and the first exams are already approaching. According to findings by researchers from the University of Basel, school children cope better with the stress if they ...

Electrical Noise Stimulation Applied to the Brain Could Be Key to Boosting Math Learning

Aug. 31, 2023 — Exciting a brain region using electrical noise stimulation can help improve mathematical learning in those who struggle with the subject, according to a new ...

Lengthy Screen Time Associated With Childhood Development Delays

Aug. 30, 2023 — How much is adequate screen time for a child? It is the question at the forefront of many parents' minds. Now, a recent cohort study has found that the amount of screen time spent by ...

Surprising Study Results: Students Are Bored During Exams

Aug. 30, 2023 — In the case of boredom, we think of many situations in life but intuitively not of exams. However, an international team of academics has now studied exactly this phenomenon of test boredom for the ...

Researcher Combats Bullying of Students With Disabilities

Aug. 30, 2023 — Students with disabilities are often bullied and socially excluded in school at a far greater rate than their classmates. To help teachers recognize, respond to and prevent bullying toward these ...

No Evidence Grammar School Systems Are Best for the Brightest, Study of 500,000 Pupils Reveals

Aug. 28, 2023 — The UK's brightest pupils' chances of getting top GCSE grades are actually lower in grammar schools than in comprehensives, according to a major new piece of ...

Pros and Cons of ChatGPT Plugin, Code Interpreter, in Education, Biology, Health

Aug. 25, 2023 — Researchers see potential in educational settings for the newest official ChatGPT plugin, called Code Interpreter, they've found limitations for its use by scientists who work with biological ...

Knowledge of Building Blocks of Words Plays an Important Role When Deaf Children Learn to Read, Analysis Shows

Aug. 23, 2023 — An understanding of how words can be broken down into smaller units of meaning plays a key role when deaf and hard of hearing children learn to read, analysis ...

Parents Need Better Support to Develop Digital Literacies for Themselves and Their Children

Aug. 23, 2023 — Parents should be taught how to better understand the increasingly volatile social media landscape that is deploying sophisticated algorithms, according to a new ...

Want to Increase Resiliency in Kids? Teach Creativity

Aug. 22, 2023 — Train elementary school students how to be creative and you can help increase their resilience in the face of real-life problems, new research ...

New Research Finds Way to Reduce Bias in Children

Aug. 21, 2023 — Children's views of inequality may be influenced by how its causes are explained to them, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers. The work offers insights into the factors that ...

Overuse of Social Media and Devices Top Parent Concerns as Kids Head Back to School

Aug. 21, 2023 — As children head back to school, two issues have climbed higher on their parents' list of concerns: the role of social media and the internet in kids' ...

Strict Tech Rules at Boarding School a Bonus for Teens' Sleep

Aug. 21, 2023 — Struggling with a teenager who refuses to ditch digital devices at night and wakes up grumpy? Boarding school could be the ...

A Healthy Diet, Reading, and Doing Sports Promote Reasoning Skills in Children

Aug. 17, 2023 — According to a recent study, improved overall diet quality and reduced consumption of red meat, as well as increased time spent in reading and organized sports enhanced reasoning skills among ...

Perils of Not Being Attractive or Athletic in Middle School

Aug. 10, 2023 — Life is harder for adolescents who are not attractive or athletic. New research shows low attractive and low athletic youth became increasingly unpopular over the course of a school year, leading to ...

Dissecting the Anatomy of a 'Superheroic' Science Class

Aug. 9, 2023 — What do superheroes Deadpool and Elastigirl have in common? Each was used in a college anatomy class to add relevance to course discussions -- Deadpool to illustrate tissue repair and Elastigirl, aka ...

Brain Mechanism That Drives Focus Despite Distractions

Aug. 9, 2023 — Neuroscientists find that key neurons in the front of the brain act as 'traffic control' to manage our attention to visual stimuli, and help us focus despite ...

'Ebb and Flow' Brain Mechanism That Drives Learning Identified

Aug. 9, 2023 — Researchers have long thought that rewards like food or money encourage learning in the brain by causing the release of the 'feel-good' hormone dopamine, known to reinforce storage of new ...

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