(Medical Xpress)—Somewhere between the traditional classroom and old fashion home schooling, online learning has emerged as the dominant educational resource. Skyrocketing tuition, particularly at the college level, has ...
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University showed that visual aids that create the illusion of movement, like a screen placed in front of one's hand showing the hand move, can improve motor performance and the early stages ...
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New research from the University of Cambridge and the University of Melbourne, published in Science Advances, shows neurotypical workers and students taking cognitive enhancers, or "smart" drugs, may actually be inhibiting ...
Jun 14, 2023
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Modern living and working environments are increasingly characterized by the simultaneous execution of locomotion and sensory—mostly visual—processing. Also, many job profiles require the simultaneous processing of visual ...
Jul 27, 2022
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Fatigue due to extended periods of work and insufficient rest can impair job performance, situation awareness, and decision-making capabilities, even when it's needed most. Specifically, in safety-critical environments, such ...
Jan 19, 2022
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Young children who practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks improve their math skills more than children who focus on spatial rotation exercises, according to a large study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet ...
May 20, 2021
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During the pandemic, the amount of screen time for many people working and learning from home as well as binge-watching TV has sharply increased. New research finds that wearing blue-light glasses just before sleeping can ...
Oct 15, 2020
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The chances of a commercial airliner crashing are vanishingly small—and yet many people are uncomfortable flying. Vaccination for many common childhood diseases entail almost no risk—but parents still worry. Human perception ...
Aug 25, 2020
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When dehydration strikes, part of the brain can swell, neural signaling can intensify, and doing monotonous tasks can get harder.
Aug 21, 2018
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It's a common experience for most students. You're sitting in a lecture that covers material you already know, and before long your mind drifts and you become occupied with thoughts of what you'll do over the weekend, or ...
Jun 20, 2018
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