These blebs are called “dendritic spines,” and their size and number change in response to learning and memory formation ... the same way a child’s brain does: It grows new task-specific ...

Learning things by rote does not work, but connecting new and old information ... Last autumn in her doctoral research in psychology, Kaisa Kanerva compared children who trained their working memory ...

These processes are called mediational processes and can involve memory ... have different learning styles. In addition to disproving theories that don't work, cognitive psychology shines ...

"Making random guesses does not ... of Psychology at the University of Toronto. Cyr's paper is posted online today in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition ...

Think learning and memory are all the job of the brain? You might want to think again, if the results of a recent study are ...

Ranganath is one of the most eminent neuroscientists in his field, director of the Memory and Plasticity Program and professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California ...

Alison Preston, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin's Center for Learning and Memory ... and ideas shaping our world today. Memory does not refer to a single aspect ...

The researchers posit that this boost of stimulation facilitates learning because these particular waves between these areas are implicated in memory formation and encoding. Because the team did ...

School psychology is a branch ... and approaches to teaching and learning. Course topics typically include classical and operant conditioning, motivation, memory, behaviorism and social-cognitive ...