Perceptual learning refers to performance changes, brought about through practice or experience, that improve an organism's ability to respond to its environment 1. A recent resurgence of interest in ...

The term consolidation was coined over one hundred years ago to describe the reduction in fragility of a declarative memory — a memory for a fact or event — after its encoding 1. Through consolidation ...

The cognitive skills used to learn how to ride a bike may be the key to a more accurate understanding of developmental dyslexia. And, they may lead to improved interventions. Scientists investigated ...

Productive failure has shown positive effects on conceptual and transfer measures, but no clear effects on procedural measures. It is therefore an open question whether, and to what extent, productive ...

We examine the applicability of Anderson's (1982) procedural learning framework to consumer decision making within the context of how marketing communications influence people's procedural knowledge ...

For decades, researchers have been investigating how the human brain consolidates procedural motor memories during sleep. Athletes, pianists, gamers, and anyone else who relies on procedural muscle ...

Memorization can get a bad rap in education debates, conjuring images of mindless repetition or a “drill and kill” pedagogy. After all, why memorize something when we can look it up on our phone? But ...

One of the joys of being an educator is embracing all the differences every student brings to the classroom, while teaching them to celebrate those unique traits in themselves and each other. Yet, ...

Writer Evan Hunter, known to most fans as "Ed McBain," virtually created the police novel. He died in 2005. Learning to Kill is a new collection of McBain's early crime fiction. On NPR's Fresh Air, ...