Articles About learning science

The best experiment against this method tested ten-year-olds. The meta-analysis for it says the effect reverses at that age. Neither side cites the other on it.

In the experiments that made this finding famous the friends were in another room and could not speak to the teenager at all. The risk taking went up anyway.

For thirty years the advice was to study to learn and not to compete. Then somebody pooled 243 studies and found the opposite pattern in the grades.

The famous meta-analysis narrows the damage to one shape of reward. What decides the outcome is not the size of the prize but its distance from reading.

The 1967 experiment is famous. What almost nobody mentions is that the researchers behind it later published a paper calling their own interpretation backwards.

Your brain runs about two degrees hotter than your mouth, swings almost a full degree across the day, and loses control before heat feels like a problem.

What happens in your white matter when you practise something, how fast the change starts, and which parts of the popular myelin story do not hold up.

How to know when you've studied enough has a real answer in memory science. The catch: feeling ready and being ready are rarely the same thing.

Most students prepare the way that feels productive, not the way that works. Here is what cognitive science actually says about getting ready for an exam.