Educational Psychology News

October 7, 2023

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Awe-Inspiring Science Can Have a Positive Effect on Mental Wellbeing

Oct. 5, 2023 — Psychologists have revealed a profound connection between the spirituality of science and positive wellbeing, much like the benefits traditionally associated with ...

Protein P53 Regulates Learning, Memory, Sociability in Mice

Sep. 28, 2023 — Researchers have established the protein p53 as critical for regulating sociability, repetitive behavior, and hippocampus-related learning and memory in mice, illuminating the relationship between the protein-coding gene TP53 and neurodevelopmental ...

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 ...

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Jellyfish, With No Central Brain, Shown to Learn from Past Experience

Sep. 22, 2023 — Even without a central brain, jellyfish can learn from past experiences like humans, mice, and flies, scientists report for the first time. They trained Caribbean box jellyfish (Tripedalia ...

Trigonelline Derived from Coffee Improves Cognitive Functions in Mice

Sep. 22, 2023 — Trigonelline is derived from coffee; researchers have found that it improves spatial learning and memory in senescence-accelerated mice. The study also suggested that this effect results from ...

Assessing Unintended Consequences in AI-Based Neurosurgical Training

Sep. 19, 2023 — A new study shows that human instruction is still necessary to detect and compensate for unintended, and sometimes negative, changes in neurosurgeon behavior after virtual reality AI training. This ...

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 ...

Vocal Learning Linked to Problem Solving Skills and Brain Size

Sep. 14, 2023 — The better a songbird is at working its way around obstacles to retrieve a snack, the more complex its vocal learning ability will ...

Potential New Approach to PTSD Treatment

Sep. 13, 2023 — A research study has found that cerebellar inhibitory interneurons are essential for fear memory, a type of emotional memory formation. Inhibitory interneurons within the cerebellar circuitry act as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Discoveries on Memory Mechanisms Could Unlock New Therapies for Alzheimer's and Other Brain Diseases

Aug. 30, 2023 — Scientists have made a 'paradigm shifting' discovery on the mechanisms required for learning and memory that could lead to new therapies for Alzheimer's disease and potentially Down ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anti-Obesity Drug Improves Associative Learning in People With Obesity

Aug. 17, 2023 — Obesity leads to altered energy metabolism and reduced insulin sensitivity of cells. The so-called 'anti-obesity drugs' are increasingly used to treat obesity and have caused tremendous ...

Can AI Help Hospitals Spot Patients in Need of Extra Non-Medical Assistance?

Aug. 14, 2023 — Needs related to housing, transportation, food, social support and more can be identified through AI/ML techniques, study of medical record notes from patients with dementia ...

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 ...

How Sure Is Sure? Incorporating Human Error Into Machine Learning

Aug. 9, 2023 — Researchers are developing a way to incorporate one of the most human of characteristics -- uncertainty -- into machine learning ...

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 ...

'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 ...

Poor Time Management Causes Poor Sleep for College Students

Aug. 8, 2023 — Poor time management skills, particularly in organization, can lead to poor sleep quality for college ...

Memory, Forgetting, and Social Learning

Aug. 7, 2023 — One of the most actively debated questions about human and non-human culture is this: under what circumstances might we expect culture, in particular the ability to learn from one another, to be ...

Mathematical Theory Predicts Self-Organized Learning in Real Neurons

Aug. 7, 2023 — Researchers have demonstrated that self-organization of neurons as they 'learn' follows a mathematical theory called the free energy principle. The principle accurately predicted how real ...

Social Media Algorithms Exploit How Humans Learn from Their Peers

Aug. 3, 2023 — In prehistoric societies, humans tended to learn from members of our ingroup or from more prestigious individuals, as this information was more likely to be reliable and result in group success. ...

Researchers Find Little Evidence of Cheating With Online, Unsupervised Exams

July 31, 2023 — A new study finds unsupervised, online exams can provide a valid and reliable assessment of student learning, but instructors should be aware of potential weak ...

GPT-3 Can Reason About as Well as a College Student, Psychologists Report

July 31, 2023 — The artificial intelligence language model GPT-3 performed as well as college students in solving certain logic problems like those that appear on standardized tests. The researchers who conducted ...

Physical Activity Can Promote Learning and Wellbeing at Secondary School

July 27, 2023 — A study suggests that adolescents who engage in active school transport and leisure-time physical activity perform better at secondary school than their inactive peers. Regular leisure-time physical ...

Scientists May Have Discovered Mechanism Behind Cognitive Decline in Aging

July 25, 2023 — Scientists have discovered what they believe to be the central mechanism behind cognitive decline associated with normal ...

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