Learning/Literacy/Reading

Six social and behavioral scientists were recently awarded the 2019 Impact in Action Writing Prize for their submissions detailing how their research makes a valuable difference beyond academia. Four submissions received the top prize from…

Credit: Image courtesy of the Toronto Early Cognition Lab. They might not yet speak in complete sentences, but 18-month-olds are savvy when it comes to deciding when and how to try. According to a study from Arizona State University,…

Credit: Richard Hahnloser, ETH/UZH The ability to learn new motor skills is critical to almost all aspects of our lives. From the time a baby is born, it learns to move its arms and hands, to pronounce words and to walk. Such…

"Human body parsing is the process of segmenting an image or video of a person into semantically meaningful parts. The system we designed is capable of automatically parsing multiple people... view more  Sponsored by ZEISS (Scanning…

A new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons suggests that prenatal exposure to flame retardants may increase the risk of reading problems. The study was published in the January 2020…

It's not your imagination -- you and your baby really are on the same wavelengthCredit: Elise Piazza, Princeton Baby Lab Have you ever played with a baby and felt a sense of connection, even though they couldn't yet talk to you? New…

Movia Robotics improves educational outcomes for autistic kids with robot technologyCredit: (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo) Robots. These humanoid machines aren't just science fiction anymore. In fact, they are relatively common in everyday life,…

Credit: Marianne Stein URBANA, Ill. - School test scores often show gaps in performance between white and non-white students. Understanding the complex reasons behind this can help reduce those gaps and promote social equality, explains…

How the brain can create sound information via lip-readingCredit: Bourguignon et al., JNeurosci 2019 Brain activity synchronizes with sound waves, even without audible sound, through lip-reading, according to new research published in…

From 23 to 27 March 2020, the most important international conference on learning analytics will take part in Germany for the first time: At Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main Learning analytics describes the technology-assisted…