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Date Time Neighborhoods kids grow up in can affect their brain development Growing up in a disadvantaged neighborhood is related to children’s brain structure and neurocognitive performance, according to a study published May 3, 2021 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. It is associated with the brain’s cortical structure and volume as well as how children pay attention, their executive function, reading, flexible thinking, and other tasks that support learning. These differences could potential...

Share On April 28, a scientific and practical seminar was held at the Center for Cognitive Development of Children of the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology of PetrSU. The republican scientific and practical seminar “Cognitive development of preschool children: modern accents and perspectives” became the first scientific and methodological event of the center. More than 170 people took part in the seminar: teachers of educational institutions of Petrozavodsk (kindergarten No. 7, 8, 11, 38...

Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Here’s a sobering thought: The older we get, the harder it is for us to learn, to question, to reimagine. This isn’t just habit hardening into dogma. It’s encoded into the way our brains change as we age. And it’s worsened by an intellectual and economic culture that prizes efficiency and dismisses play. Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where she runs the Cognitive Development and L...

Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Alison Gopnik The April 16 episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” April 16, 2021, 9:05 a.m. ET Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters, like today’s episode with Alison Gopnik. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Transcripts of our episodes are made available as soon as possible. They are not fully edited for grammar or spelling. A Conversation About Human Minds, for Human MindsThe psychologist Aliso...

An Israeli professor spoke out in a recent video about the current mental and emotional deprivation of today’s youth, how they are programmed to seek stimulation and consume, while being deprived [...]

Experience is the best teacher! April 4, 2021, 10:35 PM IST Mrs. Rashmi S Chari has been actively involved in the field of education for last 35 years. She is currently Consultant-Education & Training with Centre for Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment New Delhi. She is an empanelled trainer with Oxford University Press (OUP) and prominent chains of schools such as Delhi Public Schools Society (DPS), Salwan Public Schools, Vidya Bharti group of schools etc. She regularly blogs o...

The Atlantic Scientists think it’s valuable, but they’re not quite sure why. Millennium Images / Gallery Stock Anyone who has ever chucked a tennis ball in the general vicinity of a border collie knows that some animals take play very seriously—the intense stare, the tremble of anticipation, the apparent joy with every bounce, all in pursuit of inedible prey that tastes like the backyard. Dogs are far from the only animals that devote considerable time and energy to play. Juvenile wasps w...

What makes us happy? Exploring the science of happiness Issued on: PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 9 min How happy do you think you are? What even is happiness? And how do you go about measuring it? Students at the University of Bristol in the southwest of England have taken a "science of happiness" course. Evidence suggests that the simple fact of taking the course actually improves the happiness levels of those who take part. We discu...

Research shows multiple social and cognitive benefits of playing video games.

3 March 2021, 10:00 am EST By A physicist claimed that his new AI algorithm proves that reality is just a simulation. The new technologys results were published by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory journal on Feb. 11, stating that the latest artificial intelligence can be applied to fusion energy.   (Photo : Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images) Leo, aged 9 months, takes part in an experiment at the Birkbeck Babylab Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, on March 3, 2014 in London, ...