Psychology & Psychiatry
Milestone developments at four years old help children tell lies, play hide-and-seek and read maps
At the age of about four, children reach important milestones in brain development.
Mar 13, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain scans reveal the hidden shape of thinking and predict students' learning better than test scores
The traditional tests and grades that educators have long used may measure learning less accurately than scans of the brain, according to a new study published in Science Advances. The paper, authored by a team of researchers ...
Aug 10, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
To understand how people think, look to their actions, not their words
Actions not only speak louder than words, they also happen first and faster, Stanford psychologist Barbara Tversky says. Catching a falling cup, rolling one's eyes at a bad joke—responses like these happen before people ...
Aug 5, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Cheap, fun ways kids can learn through play this holiday break
Children learn best through play, but they don't need expensive toys to do so.
Dec 13, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Framing spatial tasks as social eliminates gender differences
Women underperform on spatial tests when they don't expect to do as well as men, but framing the tests as social tasks eliminates the gender gap in performance, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, ...
Oct 12, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Playing with puzzles and blocks may build children's spatial skills
Play may seem like fun and games, but new research shows that specific kinds of play are actually associated with development of particular cognitive skills. Data from a nationally representative study show that children ...
Jan 28, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Electronic devices could be a detriment to spatial cognition
What do a commuter taking a detour on the way to work and a youngster fashioning a bird out of a sheet of brightly colored paper have in common? They're both depending on spatial cognition to complete a task.
Mar 4, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Learning spatial terms improves children's spatial skills
Preschool children who hear their parents describe the size and shape of objects and then use those words themselves perform better on tests of their spatial skills, researchers at the University of Chicago have found.
Nov 9, 2011
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