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A study showed that visual form perception had close relations with both reading comprehension and arithmetic computation.

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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, engineer, architect, inventor, scientist, and naturalist. Leonardo is also known for his dyslexia because he wrote his notes backward, from right to left, in a mirror image.

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These two scans both belong to three-year-olds, so why is one so much bigger? Because one was loved by their parents and the other was neglected.

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One of the most striking findings in psychology is that almost all cognitive abilities are positively related. On average, people who are better at a skill like reasoning are generally also better at a skill like vocabulary.

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It would be revolutionary if a special font could improve the reading performance of children and adults with dyslexia. Or if a font can boost brain-based skills like memory.

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Using your feet like hands can cause organized ‘hand-like’ maps of the toes in the brain, never before documented in people, finds a UCL-led study of two professional foot painters.

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When a skilled reader looks at a known word, their brain sees it like a picture, not a group of letters needing to be processed, studies find.

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Nonverbal learning disability, a poorly understood and often-overlooked disorder that causes problems with visual-spatial processing, may affect nearly 3 million children in the United States, making it one of the most common learning disorders.

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A study shows that adults with dyslexia present a deficit in core verbal short-term memory processes. This deficit cannot be accounted for by the language processing difficulties that characterize dyslexia.

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A study reveals babies as young as 15 months can learn the value of hard work. Researchers found babies who watched an adult struggle to reach two different goals before succeeding tried harder at their own difficult task than babies who saw an adult succeed effortlessly.

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To learn new things, we must sometimes fail. If you're always scoring 100%, you're probably not learning anything new. But what's the right amount of failure? Research found that the 'sweet spot' for learning is 85%.

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Is it OK for children to count on their fingers? Generations of students have been discouraged by teachers from using their hands when learning math. But a research article published in Frontiers in Education shows using fingers may be a much more important part of math learning than previously thought.

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