Researchers interested in health-related learning have recently begun to study processes people use to self-regulate their health and their ability to prevent or control chronic disease. This paper ...

Cognitive kindness is an inclination most educators would gladly endorse and already uphold in at least some of what we do, drawing from the scholarship of teaching and learning and cognitive ...

Cognitive dissonance occurs when our predictions, preferences and predilections are disconfirmed. As we will see, we can harness this concept to improve student learning.

Learning Transfer & Cognitive Load When discussing learning transfer—the ability to apply previous knowledge, skills, and strategies to new contexts or situations—we should also be mindful of our ...

The process of improving the synchronization between visual perception and motor skills is called visuomotor learning. It ...

A new study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology provides evidence that a brief message promoting ...

Different indicators are interesting for analyzing human learning processes. Recent studies analyze learning performance in combination with cognitive load, as an indicator for learners' invested ...

Research suggests that bilingual people enjoy some cognitive benefits later in life, but it probably requires more than a few Spanish lessons in your 60s.