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Machine Learning to Help Move Beyond Diagnostic Labels for Struggling Learners

October 29, 2018

Anyone who has ever worked with children who are struggling at learning – whether a parent or teacher – knows that diagnostic labels can only go so far in helping individuals. While receiving a diagnosis is an important landmark moment for children and families, is it enough information to guide those who are trying to […]

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Learning What to Learn: Lessons from Cognitive Neuroscience for Education

September 17, 2018

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How do we learn what to learn? This fundamental question drives the work of Rachel Wu at the University of California, Riverside. Before we can learn anything, we need to know what to pay attention to. From infancy, people are bombarded with distractions that can make that challenging. While there is a wealth of cognitive […]

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Have Schools Forgotten Brain Science?

October 30, 2015

Guest Post by Chris Forsythe, Sandia National Laboratories   Being an applied neuroscientist, I was stunned as I skimmed my daughter’s 7th grade life science textbook and found that only 8 out of 400 pages discussed the nervous system. This amounted to one section of one chapter. In contrast, while genetics are certainly important, there were […]

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Unleashing the Power of the Bilingual Mind

July 8, 2014

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Guest post by Anna M. Beres, Bangor University Writing or talking about my research in English is relatively easy. I do it everyday, even though my native language is Polish and I work in Wales, where I am constantly switching between English and Welsh. But whenever I try to explain my work to my family in […]

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Changing Children’s Cognitive Abilities Through Targeted Interventions

April 7, 2014

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CNS 2014 Blog Our cognitive fates are not sealed – that was a powerful message that came out yesterday from a session on developmental cognitive neuroscience at the CNS meeting in Boston. In four talks, speakers laid out new ways neuroscience findings can help children learn, even if they are experiencing challenges because of a […]

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