Brain training for children Can it have a meaningful, long-term impact on performance? by Annie Brookman-Byrne / November 24, 2017
Some children are biologically more sensitive to their environment Children who are the most affected by adversity are also the ones who are most sensitive to the supportive aspects of their environments Interview by Sabine Gysi / November 22, 2017
Some of the most important behaviors are contagious Emily Falk's research looks at how using messages from the media and peer influence can help people make good decisions Interview by Sabine Gysi / November 8, 2017
The relationship between working memory and intelligence in children New research suggests both age and intelligence affect activity in the frontal area of the brain that is triggered by working memory tasks by Eva Aeschlimann / November 3, 2017
Kids growing up in poverty struggle to acquire vital cognitive abilities Silvia Bunge on developing interventions to better support the learning of goal-directed behavior and reasoning in children Interview by Sabine Gysi / October 11, 2017
“Nothing is more frustrating for the brain than unattainable goals” Brain researcher Martin Korte explains how stress, nutrition and exercise affect a child’s brain and ability to learn Interview by Susanne Osadnik / September 22, 2017
Why do we view the world differently, even when standing side by side? New research seeks to understand how attention affects the way children navigate their social world by Koraly Pérez-Edgar / September 15, 2017
Why you can’t remember your life as a baby Experiments suggest that we rapidly forget our earliest memories because the brain is still growing during early childhood by Paul Frankland / September 8, 2017
Early institutional care and the developing brain Neuroscientist Nim Tottenham talks about the developmental impact of institutional caregiving on children Interview by Meeri Kim / September 1, 2017
Identifying the best learning strategy for each individual child Understanding the varieties of memory functioning will be helpful in developing individualized learning strategies Interview by Sabine Gysi / August 30, 2017
