A new study has examined the role of several cognitive functions in young students learning to write English, their second language. The study conducted a battery of cognitive tests, gauged the ...

When discussing learning transfer—the ability to apply previous knowledge, skills, and strategies to new contexts or situations—we should also be mindful of our learners’ cognitive load. Cognitive ...

Different learning difficulties do not correspond to specific regions of the brain, as previously thought, say researchers at the University of Cambridge. Instead poor connectivity between 'hubs' ...

The robots are coming. A silicon super-intelligence is on the cusp of transforming the world of work, giving life to a million hopes, fears and think pieces. Unlike a prior generation of “dumb” robots ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is positioned to make a major impact on almost every industry, including healthcare. A new study suggests that machine learning models can more quickly and affordably ...

Thinking about other people's emotions vs. actually feeling them Reviewed by Rachel Goldman, PhD, FTOS We generally think of empathy as the capacity to imagine ourselves in another person's shoes.