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Reading and Learning Research
Did Leonardo da Vinci Have Dyslexia?
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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Cognitive Abilities Reinforce Each Other
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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Special Fonts for Dyslexia and Learning Challenges
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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Brain Plasticity: Foot Painters’ Toes Mapped Like Fingers
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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The Reading Brain: How the Brain Recognizes Words
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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Visual-spatial Disorder Is Common and May Affect Math
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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Dyslexia and Short-term Memory
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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Babies Can Learn that Hard Work Pays Off
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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Learning Is Optimized When We Fail 15% of the Time
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 Okay for Children to Count on Their Fingers?
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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Learning to Read in Your 30s Transforms the Brain Profoundly
Research shows that when adults learn to read for the first time, the changes that occur in their brain are not limited to the outer layer of the brain, the cortex, but extend to deep brain structures in the thalamus and the brainstem.
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Did Thomas Edison Have Dyslexia?
Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman who developed many important devices. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors of his time. He held 1,093 U.S. patents and many in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Apparently, he also had dyslexia.
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