Researchers find that the amygdala is a sophisticated mediator that chooses between action-based and stimulus-based learning ...

Teachers are increasingly encouraged to become amateur neuroscientists. For the last decade, educational materials have promoted neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity for adaptation, as the key to ...

Over the past two decades educators and psychologists have extolled the application of brain-based learning programs. Buzzwords such as neuroplasticity and prefrontal cortex are commonplace to the ...

For decades, higher education has relied on a familiar model: expert-led lectures, content-heavy curricula and assessments designed to measure recall. While this approach has produced graduates with ...

While kids can pick up new languages at a rapid clip, we adults often struggle to remember the word for fork three months into French class. Historically, this age-related mismatch in language ...