Juliania Book

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…

understanding brain waves

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…

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Welcome to “the Messiness”

In a recent interview on this blog, Dr. Pooja K. Agarwal spoke about the benefits…