Posts Tagged ‘emotional’
The NIH Toolbox ‑First Comprehensive & Standardized Tests of Brain Function- To Be Released Next Week
Neuroscience Just Got Faster, Cheaper and Easier (press release): “On Sept. 10 and 11, Gershon will introduce the new NIH Toolbox for Assessment of Behavioral and Neurological Function to hundreds of researchers at a special National Institutes of Health (NIH) conference in Bethesda, Maryland. At the end of September, the resource will be made fully…
Read MoreBrain Study Links Emotional Self-Regulation and Math Performance
Brain Study Points to Potential Treatments for Math Anxiety (Education Week): “The study, published this morning in the journal Cerebral Cortex, is a continuation of work on highly math-anxious people being conducted by Sian L. Beilock, associate psychology professor at the University of Chicago, and doctoral candidate Ian M. Lyons. In prior research, Beilock has found…
Read MoreDeveloping self-regulation at school
Excellent article in the New York Times on learning, self-regulation and executive fuunctions: The School Issue: Preschool: Can the Right Kinds of Play Teach Self-Control? (New York Times) — “Over the last few years, a new buzz phrase has emerged among scholars and scientists who study early-childhood development, a phrase that sounds more as if it…
Read MoreChanging our Minds…by Reading Fiction
(Editor’s Note: we are pleased to bring you this article thanks to our collaboration with Greater Good Magazine.) Changing our Minds By imagining many possible worlds, argues novelist and psychologist Keith Oatley, fiction helps us understand ourselves and others. ‑By Keith Oatley For more than two thousand years people have insisted that reading fiction is good…
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