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The Neuroscience of Morality

How do brains encode moral impulses? As you can imagine, that’s an extraordinarily difficult question–in…

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Intentional Innovation: How to Guide Risk-Taking, Build Creative Capacity, and...

How can educators prepare students for an uncertain future? A.J. Juliani, a former middle and…

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Diagnosing ADHD with MRI

How do we know if a student has ADHD? Typically, we observe behavior. To what…

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Highlighting Retrieval Practice

The Effortful Educator describes his fun system for using highlighters during retrieval practice. He teaches AP…

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God on the Brain

What’s happening in your brain when you contemplate religious experience? Over at Brainblogger, Viatcheslav Wlassoff contemplates…

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Advice for College Students

This brief (and admirably clear) article offers guidance to college students on the study strategies…

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Bilingual Preschoolers and Self-Control

If you can speak two or more languages, you’re likely to have some real advantages…

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Beyond Mere “Memory”

Newcomers to the field of psychology and neuroscience often want to learn as much as…

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Autonomy and Motivation

Self-determination theory, developed by Edward Deci & Richard Ryan, argues that people are motivated by…

Brain Training and Dementia

When you see claims for an exciting new brain training finding (the headline crows “Dementia…