The cerebellum, a brain structure traditionally considered to be involved in motor function, has been implicated in the reading disability and developmental dyslexia. New research shows that the cerebellum is not engaged during reading in typical readers and does not differ in children who have...
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When learning to read, children may mistake certain letters for other similar ones, especially those that can be reversed or appear the same when seen in a mirror. The child may read “dog” as “bog” or look at the written word “was” and read it...
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Since the beginning of the twentieth century, dyslexia research has been dominated by a search for the Holy Grail: the single cognitive deficit that is necessary and sufficient to cause all behavioral characteristics of dyslexia. Until the 1950s, the belief was that dyslexia is attributable...
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You'd expect excessive athletic training to make the body tired, but can it make the brain tired too? A new study suggests that the answer is 'yes.'...
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A recent study revealed that regular tea drinkers have better organized brain regions -- and this is associated with healthy cognitive function -- compared to non-tea drinkers. ...
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MRIs before and after space missions reveal that astronauts' brains compress and expand during spaceflight, according to a University of Michigan study....
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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 new study of two professional foot painters....
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Adolescents with higher levels of physical activity performed better in school during transition from primary school to lower secondary school than their physically inactive peers, a new study from Finland shows. ...
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Adults are really good at paying attention only to what you tell them to -- but children don't ignore anything. That difference can actually help children do better than adults in some learning situations, a new study suggests....
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This paper was presented virtually at the EduLearn19 International Conference on New Learning Technologies in Palma, Spain. The study confirms the importance of strong cognitive skills for academic achievement; the cognitive skill with the strongest correlation was auditory short-term memory....
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