We often treat learning as something that can be accessed with enough motivation and discipline. But learning depends on something more basic: whether the nervous system is in a state that allows for ...

Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in ...

Traumatic experiences can have ripple effects that permeate across many aspects of people's lives. For students, adverse childhood experiences have been shown to impact attention, memory, language ...

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

Reimagining education to cultivate curiosity, questioning, dialogue and critical thinking can develop students’ lifelong learning disposition and capacity for participation in a democratic society.

On Thursday, the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute welcomed Dani Bassett, a professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and an incoming professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale ...

In the evolving landscape of higher education, centers and institutes dedicated to teaching and learning can no longer be viewed as optional support units; they have become critical engines driving ...

The resources being cut were instrumental in helping faculty adjust to online learning during the pandemic and sharing research opportunities with students across schools and colleges. Provost William ...

Interpersonal neuroscience has gained importance in complementing single-person approaches to understand the neural underpinnings of learning in social contexts, mainly in neurotypical adults and ...

If you’re anything like me, rocking through the assigned reading or a few sets of math problems isn’t your fondest memory from your early years. So why are influencers telling their followers to bring ...

The bell rings at 10:00 a.m. A teacher begins explaining quadratic equations. Some students lean forward, pencils ready. Others stare at the clock. A few are still turning yesterday’s lesson over in ...

Teachers are increasingly encouraged to become amateur neuroscientists. For the last decade, educational materials have promoted neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity for adaptation, as the key to ...