ADHD is a chronic neurodevelopmental disorder that can disrupt students’ ability to maintain attention, regulate emotions, and inhibit impulses at school. …mindfulness interventions have been found to enhance attention, executive function, emotional regulation, and self-control ..read more

How do people perform under pressure? As performance-related anxiety increases, what happens to performance? This was the focus of a recently published experiment. In this study, the researchers proposed that the difference between whether pressure is good or bad is how it is interpreted ..read more

The first post in this series gave an overview of Artificial Intelligence - a broad field that seeks to both better understand human cognition through computer models and to improve task-based computer models - and some of the different AI tools that have been developed. These different AI tools have different pros and cons that make them more or less suited to certain tasks. […] In this post I want to explore how generative AI, specifically chatbots, are used and how they affect our thinking and development of expertise ..read more

Artificial Intelligence is many things. As a field of study, Artificial Intelligence seeks to both better understand human cognition through computer models and to improve task-based computer models (that is, where the goal is to improve performance on a task and not necessarily to model how a human would perform on that task). Artificial Intelligence is in many ways a sister-discipline to cognitive psychology which also seeks to better under human cognition ..read more

Delivering engaging and effective presentations is important when it comes to teaching or when presenting work at conferences. As teachers, we may want to help our students to develop their presentation skills ..read more

Due to procrastination or jam-packed schedules, last minute cramming is a tool that many students utilize when it comes to exams. Although pulling an all-nighter, cramming an entire course’s worth of knowledge with the support of caffeine, may give students gratified results, this method is not ideal for content that will be needed again in the future, nor is it helpful for cognitive performance during the exam ..read more

Amber is a seasoned educator with over 15 years of classroom teaching experience. Since 2018, she has integrated the principles of the science of learning into her teaching practices ..read more

Late January, 2025 marks the Learning Scientists 9th birthday! If I’m remembering correctly, we started our little group on January 21, 2016 (but it was a long time ago and, as you all know, memory is not perfect!), and our first blog came out on February 5, 2016. Since then, we have produced a LOT of content. Today, I decided to ..read more

Happy winter holidays! We’re taking a break to spend time with our families. We’ll return on Jan 16, 2025 with a podcast episode ..read more

In this week’s post, Cindy and I (Althea) talk about our work with medical student learners. We have both worked for medical schools for a little over a year now and we’ve learned some things! We discuss common challenges for learning in medical school, efficient learning strategies, learning in the context of attentional disorders and anxiety, and what it means to prepare future healers ..read more