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Kids Learn More When Mom Is Listening
Kids may roll their eyes when their mother asks them about their school day, but answering her may actually help them learn. New research from Vanderbilt University reveals that children learn the solution to a problem best when they explain it to their mom. “We knew that children learn well with their moms or with [...]
Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12
Eight-year-old children have a radically different learning strategy from twelve-year-olds and adults. Eight-year-olds learn primarily from positive feedback (‘Well done!’), whereas negative feedback (‘Got it wrong this time’) scarcely causes any alarm bells to ring. Twelve-year-olds are better able to process negative feedback, and use it to learn from their mistakes. Adults do the same, [...]
When It Comes To Intelligence, Size Matters
A collaborative study led by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University has demonstrated a positive link between cognitive ability and cortical thickness in the brains of healthy 6 to 18 year olds. The correlation is evident in regions that integrate information from different parts of the brain. The imaging study published this [...]
The Dreams Freud Dreamed
THE DREAM ABOUT ROME Before giving the dream Freud states: “I note the fact that although the wish which excites the dream is a contemporary wish, it is nevertheless greatly reinforced by memories of childhood. I refer to a series of dreams which are based on the longing to go to Rome. For a long [...]
Music’s positive effects
A recent volume of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences takes a closer look at how music evolved and how we respond to it. Contributors to the volume believe that animals such as birds, dolphins and whales make sounds analogous to music out of a desire to imitate each other. This ability [...]
Freudian dream theory
Freudian dream theory Freud (1900/1961) claimed that dreams were attempts to fulfill peremptory wishes, arising during sleep, derived from appetitive (‘libidinal’) urges. He based this claim on findings from a purely subjective method: he collected dreamers’ associations to the individual elements of their dreams and then inferred implicit, underlying themes from the converging semantic and [...]
HOW THE BRAIN WORKS
It’s important to understand the complexity of the human brain. The human brain weighs only three pounds but is estimated to have about 100 billion cells. It is hard to get a handle on a number that large (or connections that small). Let’s try to get an understanding of this complexity by comparing it with [...]
Dreaming about Dying
Generally speaking, death cannot be represented in dreams as such, as it is no psychic content to be experienced, lived. Hence the conclusion that, when dreams about dying do occur, we have to interpret this in a completely different direction. Dreams about dying are not infrequent. It has been conclude that such dreams are also [...]
Brain Growth
It was once thought that you were born with a set number of brain cells and they just decreased as you got older. Researchers at Salk Institute for Biological Studies discovered walking three hours per week for three month increased many new neurons to grow causing a measurable increase to the size of the participant’s [...]
How to get people talking
First, don’t try to wing it, because you’ll make mistakes and look foolish. Why would you want to fake it anyway? There’s no shame in not knowing about a topic you’ve never studied. When referring to something that’s not too difficult, you may have used the expression, “It’s not brain surgery”, but did you ever [...]