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Tag: LEARNING/LITERACY/READING
Air pollution exposure linked to poor academics in childhood
Children exposed to elevated levels of air pollution may be more likely to have poor inhibitory control during late childhood and poor academic skills in early adolescence, including spelling, reading comprehension, and math skills. Difficulty with inhibition in late childhood…
How learning Braille changes brain structure over time
White matter reorganizes at specific time points to meet the needs of the brain
Red Dead Redemption 2 teaches players about wildlife
Players of the popular game Red Dead Redemption 2 learn how to identify real American wildlife, new research shows. The game, set in the American West in 1899, features simulations of about 200 real species of animals. The new study,…
Study of indigenous language education in Russia leads to intercontinental collaboration
A publication by Kazan Federal University saw light in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
Handwriting beats typing and watching videos for learning to read
Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers, a new study finds we shouldn’t be so quick to throw away the pencils and paper: handwriting helps people learn certain skills surprisingly faster and significantly better…
Researchers overcome winking, napping pigs to prove brain test works
URBANA, Ill. – If you’ve ever been to an eye doctor, there’s a good chance you’ve felt the sudden puff of air to the eye that constitutes a traditional test for glaucoma. It’s no one’s favorite experience, but the puff…
Autistic children can benefit from attention training – new study
Attention training in young people with autism can lead to significant improvements in academic performance, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK along with institutions in São Paolo, in Brazil, tested a computer…
Smart technology is not making us dumber
UC social/behavioral expert explains that tech doesn’t dumb us down
How children integrate information
Researchers use a computer model to explain how children integrate information during word learning
Researchers find human infant brains, bodies are active during new sleep stage
Human babies do even more than we thought while sleeping. A new study from University of Iowa researchers provides further insights into the coordination that takes place between infants’ brains and bodies as they sleep. The Iowa researchers have for…
Mary Foltz awarded Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship to Expand LGBTQ Archive
Lehigh University’s Mary Foltz will serve as a scholar-in-residence at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, where she will work with the center’s Lehigh Valley LGBT Community Archive and lead public humanities initiatives.
Flickering screens may help children with reading and writing difficulties
Previous studies have shown that children with attention difficulties and/or ADHD solve cognitive tasks better when they are exposed to auditory white noise. However, this is the first time that such a link has been demonstrated between visual white noise…
Research uncovers broadband gaps in US to help close digital divide
High-speed internet access has gone from an amenity to a necessity for working and learning from home, and the COVID-19 pandemic has more clearly revealed the disadvantages for American households that lack a broadband connection. To tackle this problem, Michigan…
Language extinction triggers loss of unique medicinal knowledge
Language is one of our species’ most important skills, as it has enabled us to occupy nearly every corner of the planet. Among other things, language allows indigenous societies to use the biodiversity that surrounds them as a “living pharmacy”…
The UOC and UB promote the first Spanish-speaking association of Specific Language Impairment
The social consequences of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and its effects on memory and attention span are among the studies to be presented at CHITEL 2021
‘Camouflage breakers’ can find a target in less than a second
After looking for just one-twentieth of a second, experts in camouflage breaking can accurately detect not only that something is hidden in a scene, but precisely identify the camouflaged target, a skill set that can mean the difference between life…
Lack of math education negatively affects adolescent brain and cognitive development
A new study suggests that not having any math education after the age of 16 can be disadvantageous
Bilingualism as a natural therapy for autistic children
An international team led by UNIGE demonstrates that the characteristics of bilingualism allow autistic children to compensate for certain fundamental deficits
The narrative of becoming a leader is rooted in culture
The growth stories of Finnish leaders repeat the same elements as the leadership stories in the beloved Finnish literary masterpieces The Unknown Soldier and Under the North Star
Overconfidence in news judgement
New study shows that overconfidence in news judgment is associated with false news susceptibility
Baylor study uses candy-like models to make STEM accessible to visually impaired students
Baylor researchers, led by Bryan Shaw, found oral tactile visualization of complex 3D structures to be as accurate as eyesight
Parents modify the home literacy environment according to their children’s progress in learning to read
Research across a wide range of languages shows that children’s home literacy environment can often predict their language and literacy skills. However few studies, especially for English speaking children, examine how children’s development affects what parents do and not just…
Reporting of race, sex, socioeconomic status in randomized clinical trials in medical journals
What The Study Did: Researchers compared reporting practices for race, sex and socioeconomic status in randomized clinical trials published in general medical journals in 2015 with those published in 2019. Authors: Asad Siddiqui, M.D., of the Hospital for Sick Children…
Palgrave announces release date for first-ever Iris Murdoch book series
New series on famed author’s life and work launches in September 2022
Robotic ‘Third Thumb’ use can alter brain representation of the hand
Using a robotic ‘Third Thumb’ can impact how the hand is represented in the brain, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. The team trained people to use a robotic extra thumb and found they could effectively carry out…
Literary and film historians propose five key concepts for reflection on global literary studies
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is organizing an international symposium to analyze literary and film history and the cultural processes, texts and agents involved, from a perspective that seeks to be transnational, gender-based and decentralized
English as a medium of instruction in higher education across the globe
A new study provides a profile of teachers around the world who provide English Medium Instruction (EMI) in higher education, in which the English language is used to teach academic subjects (other than English itself) in countries where the first…
The online learning needs of students across different grades during the COVID-19 pandemic
A new study published in the British Journal of Educational Technology has identified the different needs of students across primary, middle, and high school related to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the study, investigators surveyed 1,170,769 Chinese students…
Forgery of official documents by monks was rife across medieval Europe, new book shows
Forgery of official documents by monks was rife across medieval Europe because of social changes and the growing importance of the written word, a new book shows. Fake documentation began to be produced in earnest in the tenth century across…
Social cognition plays a key role in everyday lives of people with multiple sclerosis
Longitudinal study by international MS research team shows that people with relapsing-remitting MS performed significantly lower in several social cognition domains, despite being classified as “cognitively normal.”
Uncovering the effects of prior knowledge on learning and memory in bird experts
The Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) has awarded a team of scientists at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute (RRI) a prestigious grant to determine why having prior knowledge on a topic affects how we learn new, related information as we…
Multilingual people have an advantage over those fluent in only two languages
UTokyo-MIT study measures brain activity while learning basic sounds, grammar rules of unfamiliar language
Connecting the dots between engagement and learning
CMU/Pitt researchers explore impact of internal states on learning
New model to help identify risk factors for reading difficulties in children
Featured intervention is a new book program for babies in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Cardiorespiratory fitness improves grades at school
By confirming the link between children’s cardiorespiratory fitness and their school results, researchers at the UNIGE underline the importance of physical education classes at school.
How to talk to people about climate change
As our planet warms, seas rise and catastrophic weather events become more frequent, action on climate change has never been more important. But how do you convince people who still don’t believe that humans contribute to the warming climate? New…
School closures disproportionately hit disadvantaged students in the US
A study analyzing the distribution of school closures due to COVID concludes that racial minorities, students in need and with already poor academic performance have been more likely engaged in remote schooling since September 2020
Measurable changes in brain activity during first few months of studying a new language
Improvements in reading and listening skills of first-time Japanese language students observed via brain scan
The brain area with which we interpret the world
Usually, the different areas in the cerebrum take on a very specific function. For example, they process our movements or things we see or hear, i.e. direct physical information. However, some areas of the brain come into play when dealing…
Global evidence for how EdTech can support pupils with disabilities is ‘thinly spread’
Report reveals ‘astonishing’ shortage of information about how rapid advances in educational technology could help pupils with disabilities in low and middle-income countries
Overhearing negative claims about social groups may influence development of bias in children
Throughout the world, societies discriminate against and mistreat members of certain social groups. Young children may express intergroup biases that lead to such outcomes, demonstrating preferences for their own over other groups. How these biases develop is an important topic…
Study finds foster youth lack critical financial skills
VANCOUVER, Wash. – Most people rely on family members to help them learn how to open a bank account, find a job or create a budget, but that’s often not an option for youth in foster care, according to a…
Meta-analysis shows children prefer people who speak like them
Research shows that children prefer to befriend, listen to, and imitate people who speak similarly to them. While most of this research has been conducted on monolingual (speaking only one language) children from Western societies, a growing subset of research…
Study shows stronger brain activity after writing on paper than on tablet or smartphone
Unique, complex information in analog methods likely gives brain more details to trigger memory
For college students with disabilities, communication is key in online learning
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic changed the higher education experience for students across the United States, with more than 90 percent of institutions reporting a shift in education delivery with the arrival of COVID-19. The rapid transition to remote study came…
20 years of research on the use of virtual reality in education
An analysis published in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning highlights 20 years of research on the use of virtual reality (VR) in K-12 schools and higher education. Investigators examined 149 articles from 2000-2019 from three major academic databases. They…
Picking up a book for fun positively affects verbal abilities: Concordia study
Sandra Martin-Chang and Stephanie Kozak find that fiction lovers are especially likely to benefit from reading
When English and French mix in literature
New study explores the value of bilingual children’s books in second language learning
New study identifies a limit on the range of vocalizations that support infant cognition
Northwestern researchers test whether birdsong supports infants’ object categorization