Psychology & Psychiatry
Study finds video game playing causes no harm to young children's cognitive abilities
Parents: It might be time to rethink your family's video-gaming rules.
Feb 7, 2023
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News tagged with spatial skills
Neuroscience
Finding a new way: Orienteering can train the brain, may help fight cognitive decline
The sport of orienteering, which draws on athleticism, navigational skills and memory, could be useful as an intervention or preventive measure to fight cognitive decline related to dementia, according to new research from ...
Jan 20, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Psychologists searching for public participants for research project into navigation
A groundbreaking study into the cognitive basis of our spatial navigation and sense of direction is searching for volunteers to take part in a series of trials.
May 13, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Gender gap in spatial reasoning starts in elementary school, meta-analysis finds
It is well-established that, on average, men outperform women on a spatial reasoning task known as mental rotation—imagining multi-dimensional objects from different points of view. Men are not, however, born with this ...
Apr 11, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study shows colorful blocks can prep preschoolers for a future in math
A 4-year-old lines up colorful blocks in a row: red-red-green-red-red-green. Her teacher encourages her to replicate the pattern using soft toys: bear-bear-monkey-bear-bear-monkey. Another child uses blocks to build a doorway, ...
Aug 28, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Five easy ways to boost children's spatial skills
When we read maps, pack the car for holidays, assemble flat-pack furniture or cut cake into equal slices, we use spatial reasoning skills.
Aug 13, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Young children's spatial talk predicts their spatial abilities
It's not how many words a kid knows; it's how they choose them that tells Hilary Miller the most about their spatial skills.
Nov 29, 2016
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Health
Pregnancy brain? Study finds no cognitive deficiencies associated with pregnancy
Pregnant women sometimes blame absent-mindedness on the baby, but research says this myth is all in their heads.
Apr 7, 2015
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Neuroscience
Deconstructing brain systems involved in memory and spatial skills
In work that reconciles two competing views of brain structures involved in memory and spatial perception, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have conducted experiments that suggest the ...
Apr 2, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How the mind processes complex spatial information
Northwestern University's David H. Uttal will discuss a program that has enhanced students' learning at a variety of levels, from basic spatial reasoning to solving complex problems involving the coordination of numerous ...
Feb 16, 2015
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