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Who learns wins
Companies that invest in learning produce more innovative products and services and report better financial performance. view more (2005-01-07)
Sleep may be important in regulating emotional responses
Seep selectively preservers memories that are emotionally salient and relevant to future goals when sleep follows soon after learning. Effects persist for as long as four months after the memory is created. view more (2009-06-11)
The brain's motivation station
The prospect of a paycheck, good grade, or promotion wonderfully concentrates the mind, and researchers have now identified the brain circuitry responsible for such reward-motivated learning. view more (2006-05-04)
Children and home computers: living up to parental aspirations?
Most parents regard supporting their children's education as a major motivator for buying a home computer. However most children are using them to play games. These are the findings of recent research, carried out by Lucinda Kerawalla and Dr Charles Crook, presented today, Thursday 28 June, at the International Conference on Communication, Problem... view more... (2001-06-25)
Mayo researchers find anesthesia not harmful for babies during birth process
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that children exposed to anesthesia during Cesarean section are not at any higher risk for learning disabilities later in life than children not delivered by C-section. view more (2009-07-28)
MIT: Leveraging learning for artificial respiration
MIT researchers have found that the body's innate ability to adapt to recurring stimuli could be leveraged to design more effective and less costly artificial respirators. view more (2007-09-12)
Adult brain cells rediscover their inner child
You may not be able to relive your youth, but part of your brain can. Johns Hopkins researchers have found that newly made nerves in an adult brain's learning center experience a one-month period when they are just as active as the nerves in a developing child. view more (2007-05-24)
Dear Deirdre may change the way we learn
The Economic and Sciences Research Council has given a £700,000 grant to a team at the Universities of Sheffield, Sussex, Edinburgh and Newcastle so they can explore a new way for junior health care workers to learn how to make clinical decisions, using a similar process to that used in agony columns. The project will be analysing the... view more... (2003-07-15)
Understanding Fragile X syndrome with the blink of an eye
While researchers have long known the genetic defect underlying Fragile X syndrome, they are still tracing how that defect creates the complex mix of mental retardation, hyperactive behavior, attention deficits, and other problems in the disorder. view more (2005-08-04)
Mechanism of nicotine's learning effects explored
While nicotine is highly addictive, researchers have also shown the drug to enhance learning and memory—a property that has launched efforts to develop nicotine-like drugs to treat cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, schizophrenia, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. view more (2007-04-05)
Research Explains How Lead Exposure Produces Learning Deficits
A study of young adult rats by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health provides evidence that explains exactly how exposure to lead during brain development produces learning deficits. view more (2007-04-04)
Short-term stress can affect learning and memory
Short-term stress lasting as little as a few hours can impair brain-cell communication in areas associated with learning and memory, University of California, Irvine researchers have found. view more (2008-03-12)
The learning and use of mathematics can influence the development of a child's sense of social identity.
Teachers can send different messages to male and female pupils, leading to tensions in classes. These are the findings of Dr Patricia Murphy of The Open University, presented today, Thursday 28 June 2001, at the International Conference on Communication, Problem-Solving and Learning at the University of Strathclyde. Dr Murphy looked at teachers... view more... (2001-06-25)
Good School Buildings Can Boost Achievement
"Improving the quality of school buildings is essential if we are to succeed in raising achievement." David Blunkett, former Secretary of State for Education and Employment, 1997 The quality of school buildings can help or hinder learning and teaching, says a new study from London University`s Institute of Education. Well-designed buildings and... view more... (2002-06-20)
Students with disabilities encourage others to continue learning
Students with disabilities and learning difficulties are taking part in a unique University of Liverpool training scheme that enables them to educate those with similar disabilities to themselves. view more (2005-11-15)
Back to School: Cramming doesn't work in the long term
When you look back on your school days, doesn't it seem like you studied all the time? However, most of us seem to have retained almost nothing from our early immersion in math, history, and foreign language. view more (2007-08-30)
Children's collaboration in creative writing
Children produce more creative writing after "brainstorming" with friends. These are the findings of Miss Eva Vass of the Open University, reported at the International Conference on Communication, Problem Solving and Learning held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, today, Friday, 29 June 2001. Creative writers engage in several key... view more... (2001-06-25)
Press photo opportunity - University provides good clean fun at summer camp
Square bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, bubbles as large as a hula-hoop and even dry-ice carbon-dioxide bubbles are making chemistry fun for schoolchildren from across the country in a summer chemistry camp at the University of York this week. (19-23 August). Fifty 15-year-olds will be learning how surfactants - 'surface active agents' - work as... view more... (2002-08-20)
Research with squirrels provides clues on hormone's role in human learning
Tests on the influence that a stress-related hormone has on learning in ground squirrels could have an impact on understanding how it influences human learning, according to a University of Chicago researcher. view more (2008-03-14)
Flame retardants cause brain damage in young mice
Reduced adaptability, hyperactivity, and disturbances in memory and learning functions. These are deficiencies mice and rats evince when exposed to bromide flame retardants, such as those found in computers, textiles, and other materials in our surroundings, during the period when the brain develops most rapidly. Our environment contains a... view more... (2004-11-01)
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