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Did you know that the brain activates in different patterns when playing games with others, as opposed to when you're playing against yourself? If not, it may interest you to know that this happens because we are building a model of how our opponents and team members think and act, inside our brains. How this ca... |
7 February 2012
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Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston (UTHealth) say that sea snails and humans are actually pretty similar when it comes to studies dealing with memories. A new research carried out by the team reveals a new way of boosting memory, which was inspired by the mollusks.
The work has ... |
27 December 2011
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So.cl (pronounced “social”), previously codenamed “Tulalip,” is the latest research project that Microsoft has decided to make public. Coming from Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, the new initiative is built on Bing search programming interfaces and is focused on delivering a new learning tool f... |
16 December 2011
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Investigators from the Boston University (BU) and the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, in Kyoto, Japan, say that it may be possible to soon use a new technology for boosting visual perceptual learning, or even healing mental damage.
This could be done with little or no conscious effort on the part of th... |
9 December 2011
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Researchers in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge say that children who learn to speak two or more languages benefit from more advantages over their peers who only know their mother tongue.
Data used for this investigation were collected by the Bilingualism Inform... |
5 October 2011
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) neuroscientists say that they now know more about how the brain behaves when certain tasks become routine. Their study was focused on observing how the frequency of brain waves shifts once a newly-learned task is mastered.
This ability the human brain has, of diverting r... |
27 September 2011
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A new computer chip that is being developed by technology giant IBM allows a computer to actually learn the game of Pong and the strategies that lead to victory and might have a big impact on the gaming world in the long run.
The chip is called Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics or SyNAP... |
22 August 2011
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When it comes to politicians the customary attitude towards video games is one of distrust, with leaders often citing them as being a bad influence on children and something that needs to be regulated in the long term to limit their effects. But in a speech made to the Royal Society of London, Michael Gove, who is t... |
5 July 2011
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One of the main criticism that has been hurled at video gaming since the early '90's is that they only serve as time wasters, especially for young players, and that they do not impart any skills in return and do not teach them anything.Time wasted on video games is often pitted against the time that could b... |
25 June 2011
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In a new study of the reasons that may ultimately hinder children's abilities to achieve even basic math proficiency, experts have determined that some kids simply lack an intuitive grasp of the whole concept of working with numbers. When adding this to the fact that mathematics are hard to learn and practice ev... |
20 June 2011
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In a study focused on low-income families, researchers at the Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. determined that poor children tended to be more ready for school if they had gone through learning experiences at home with their parents.
In past studies, it was demonstrated that low-income children tended to be less... |
18 June 2011
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Researchers in the United States are currently trying to figure out ways of integrating music with the objective of helping students be more focused and creative in learning mathematics and science. Around the world, children, adolescents and teenagers are entirely captivated by music, and carry it with them everywhe... |
16 May 2011
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Scientists at the Concordia University say that one of the reasons why seniors and older adults begin to forget things is because their brains are literally cluttered with too much unimportant information. The team argues that memory loss should not be considered to be a natural function of aging. In other words, it&... |
20 April 2011
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States has recently determined that people tend to change their opinions about how they believe they will handle learning depending on the way they perceive intelligence in both themselves and others. These results go up against established knowledge and public wisdom, whi... |
18 April 2011
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Rather than using elaborate study methods, students learning about science could boost their ability to memorize and understand various concepts related to their interests by practicing memory retrieval.In other words, experts have demonstrated that people are better at understanding science concepts if they remember... |
21 January 2011
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Researchers from the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom argue in a new study that children who are smarter and more capable than their peers in the classrooms in fact raise the standards for that group, allowing the others to perform better than usual as well. The correlation holds especially true in key st... |
17 December 2010
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A team of medical researchers from the University of Bristol have found the explanation for the interaction between brain state and the neural triggers responsible for learning.This discovery could open the way to new methods of strengthening cognitive functions in people suffering from debilitating diseases like Alz... |
9 December 2010
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Yale scientists identified a molecule that wires brain cells and also establishes the way we learn things, and concluded this is an important step towards new ways of improving memory and maybe correcting neurological diseases.They focused on an adhesion molecule that holds synaptic junctions together, called SynCAM... |
9 December 2010
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During sleep, your brain can learn a new piece of information and even store it for later, so that it pops up when you need it, found a new study carried out by researchers at the University of York and Harvard Medical School.The team also discovered that sleep helps people remember new words easier and allows them t... |
2 November 2010
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University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and computer scientists from the University of California in San Diego (UC San Diego) are trying another approach to better understand the process of human behavior development.They are studying child-mother interactions to implement social skills in a robot that w... |
29 October 2010
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Officials at the Arizona State University are proud to announce the Learning Sciences Institute (LSI), a new facility in which investigators from a number of disciplines will promote well-being in educational, work and family settings as well as improved learning.It wasn't until the 1990s that learning sciences ... |
26 October 2010
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A team of investigators for the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) has recently determined that the human brain is capable of compensating for the loss of one of its regions. The group learned that the cortices of individuals who had lost a portion of the brain called the amygdala – which plays an i... |
3 August 2010
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Indiana University researchers have recently concluded a thorough study on negative stereotypes, which revealed that this phenomenon causes significant repercussions in people they are addressed to. The team says subjecting people to relentless stereotyping can literally impair their ability to learn. For many years,... |
27 July 2010
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A team of Spanish investigators has determined in a new study an interesting aspect about the relationship between antisocial behavior and goal or expectations, in teenagers. This is one of the first studies to tackle this sort of issue directly, the team behind the work says. One of the main questions the young adul... |
18 June 2010
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In a new scientific study, researchers have broken new ground in their understanding of how birds and mammals may be connected evolutionarily. The investigators managed to discover that a common learning mechanism is at work in both the bird and mammalian brain, and that the same pathways are used, to some extent, in... |
19 May 2010
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Scientists from the Harvard Medical Schools propose in a new investigation that napping after learning new information may help consolidate the recently-acquired data to memory. They add that the correlation appears to be even clearer in the case of people who dream about what they've just learned while sleeping... |
24 April 2010
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Researchers from a Swedish university have recently demonstrated a clear connection between the number of instances in which children received anesthesia and their ability to learn new things. It would appear that this cognitive function is considerably impaired by the chemical cocktails that make up anesthesia drugs... |
8 March 2010
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A recent scientific study has determined that children tend to rely in authority figures when it comes to learning something new, such as the rules of a game, rather than trusting other children their own age. The work, which was conducted by German researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolog... |
22 February 2010
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Over the past few years, more and more parents have voiced criticism towards the fact that their children are spending a lot of time on their computers, rather than playing outside with their friends. But a new study shows that, in fact, the computer-game industry has managed to strike gold when it comes to making ki... |
20 February 2010
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Experts in Sweden were curious to learn precisely what caused average school performances to decline over the past few decades, so they conducted a study aimed at discerning the causes of this. They determined that a wide variety of factors contributed to these modifications in performances, which appeared to be more... |
15 February 2010
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In a find that could have massive implications for handling people suffering from speech disorders, experts at the Yale-affiliated Haskins Laboratories have determined that learning how to speak also changes the way sounds are heard in the human brain. The discovery, which is detailed in this week's issue of the... |
3 November 2009
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For a long time, scientists have been curious as to whether knowing more than one language has a positive effect on the brain, or if it benefits thinking patterns. A large number of studies on the issue was carried out, but the conclusions were mixed. Now, a new work done by a European Commission-appointed group brin... |
19 October 2009
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An international team of researchers, composed of experts from the Rutgers University, in Newark, the US, and the College de France, in Paris, has determined for the first time the nature of the mechanisms that take place in the human brain during sleep, which cause learning and memory to form. The scientific proof c... |
16 September 2009
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No matter what you are studying it seems that there is never enough time to do it. And, as if you were not in enough trouble already, the object of your interest is always too complex and you cannot grasp any logical connections or you just consider it to be extremely boring, even though you must learn everything abo... |
10 August 2009
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A new study from experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Picower Institute for Learning and Memory shows that we may have more to learn from our successes than from our failures. The new research, conducted on monkeys, revealed that neurons in the brain involved in learning became a lot more fine-t... |
5 August 2009
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In a new scientific study they've conducted, US experts at the Mayo Clinic have determined that subjecting mothers to anesthetics during Cesarean section surgery has no effect on the children's ability to learn later on in life. The find puts worried would-be mothers at rest, as the dangers of this type of ... |
28 July 2009
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Infants who spend a lot of time in front of the TV may set themselves up for difficulties in learning later on in life, a new scientific research shows. It would appear that even babies under 1 or 2 years of age are capable of “zoning out” in front of the screen, and that this type of behavior may tr... |
2 June 2009
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A new scientific study has uncovered the fact that Alzheimer's patients find it difficult to separate important information from less important one even early in the onset of the disease. This is a very important find, as it could help researchers get a more thorough insight into how the disease acts on the huma... |
4 May 2009
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Violence among children is one of the most appalling types, in that it's unconceivable for the adult mind that kids aged between 8 and 12 can exhibit such sadistic traits of aggression that they make adults shiver. Most explanations for this behavior lie within the influence of “evil,” as most people... |
7 April 2009
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Despite the fact that, over the years, formal logic has brought robotics a long way to the point where it is now, it may be that this approach to making smarter robots might no longer be sufficient anymore. That is to say, it works fine for beating someone at chess, or for matching web pages to search queries, but it... |
19 March 2009
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University of Pennsylvania (UP) researchers have just recently released a new paper, saying that the unexpected is the actual trigger of human learning, in that people can acquire new information or new behavioral patterns if the results of their actions are not those they have foreseen. The main focus of the researc... |
16 March 2009
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Researchers from Sweden have recently published a new scientific and psychological study that again emphasizes the importance of teachers and small children getting along well, and not necessarily as individuals. Rather, the research says that kids and their instructors need to find a common language, one that would ... |
11 March 2009
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The CeBIT 2009 show this year will see the presentation of a new computer-assisted learning program, one that is especially designed to meet the needs of the students and to present content in an accessible manner that will make “Crayons” one of the most appreciated such software, the producers hope. Rese... |
3 March 2009
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In a new scientific study, researchers noticed that young children are heavily influenced by the layout of the Internet page they are visiting. Namely, the way in which the content of the site is structured exerts a heavy influence on the small ones' ability to process and later recall the information they see. ... |
15 January 2009
09:36 GMT |
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The popular video-sharing website has recently gained further praise, as more and more videos detailing subjects such as math, physics, sciences and biology are starting to get posted on-line by specialists or by people who have a gift of explaining fairly complex notions very easily. Students who flunk these subject... |
12 December 2008
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I myself confess that videogames got me interested in history and geopolitics. Old classics like Age of Empire and Colonization made me very interested in the era they take place and in the mechanisms of the worldwide political systems.Microsoft Research, together with the New York University and a consortium of othe... |
8 October 2008
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It's not easy to concentrate after a long sleepless night, everybody knows that. It has been scientifically proven more than once that sleep deprivation actually decreases the activity of the brain, while after having slept, it reaches its highest levels. Washington University School of Medicine researchers have... |
1 August 2008
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As it turns out it really pays to be stupid. Well, at least for flies it does. A study carried out by a team of researchers from a Swiss university revealed that dumber flies live much longer than their geeky cousins. According to the results of the study revealed today by Tadeusz Kwackei and Joep Burger at the Unive... |
4 June 2008
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It is clear that a night owl will enjoy nightlife more than a morning lark. And if they are wise, they've got all the reasons, as a team led by the postgraduate student Martin Sale from the School of Molecular and Biomedical Science at the University of Adelaide has recently discovered: daytime affects your brai... |
16 August 2007
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"Oh, my God, I swear he has just said 'daddy'. He is definitely so smart!" Toddlers can impress you with learning 10 new words daily, but it appears to be quite simple for them, who must handle this vocabulary milestone to eventually reach the adult vocabulary. When being 18 months old, human offspring expe... |
3 August 2007
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