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Self perceived memory difficulties in medical students as another symptom of anxiety
Conclusions Memory complaints may represent a symptom of anxiety and are associated with insomnia. (Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education)
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - April 26, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

A Study of 16 years old student learning strategies from a neuropsychological perspective: an intervention proposal
Publication date: Available online 13 March 2018 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Pilar Martín-Lobo, Álvaro Muelas, Isabel Martínez, Silvia Pradas, Alberto Magreñán Scientific achievements related to brain processes provide innovation and improvements in students’ learning. The aim of this study was to analyse, relate, and compare learning strategies and academic performance of students from a neuropsychological perspective. For this, we applied the ACRA scale to 438 students to evaluate learning strategies such as acquisition, codification, retrieval and information processing support. ...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - March 14, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

The modulation of personal traits in neural responses during the aesthetic experience of mundane art
This study addresses group differences with regard to the neural mechanisms of aesthetic emotions and aesthetic judgments toward everyday designed products according to levels of everyday aesthetic experience and expertise in design. A fMRI experiment that included 26 college students was employed. The findings of this study suggest that rich everyday aesthetic experience elicits more brain activations in aesthetic judgments, and expertise in design elicits more brain activations in aesthetic emotions. Comparatively, rich everyday experience and expertise modulate the integration of external sensation and internal states, ...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - December 29, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Short-term cognitive training recapitulates hippocampal functional changes associated with one year of longitudinal skill development
Publication date: Available online 25 December 2017 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Miriam Rosenberg-Lee, Teresa Iuculano, Se Ri Bae, Jennifer Richardson, Shaozheng Qin, Dietsje Jolles, Vinod Menon A goal of developmental cognitive neuroscience is to uncover brain mechanisms underlying successful learning. While longitudinal studies capture brain changes following ‘schooling as usual’, short-term training studies can more directly link learning to brain changes. We investigated whether eight weeks of cognitive training recapitulates longitudinal changes in hippocampal engagement and conn...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - December 25, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Chronic effects of exercise implemented during school-break time on neurophysiological indices of inhibitory control in adolescents
Publication date: Available online 14 November 2017 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Sebastian Ludyga, Markus Gerber, Christian Herrmann, Serge Brand, Uwe Pühse The present study investigated the effects of an exercise intervention, which was implemented during school-break time, on the P300 component of event-related potentials and inhibitory control. Adolescents aged 12–15 years were allocated to an exercise and control group. The exercise group performed 20min of aerobic and coordinative exercise per school day over a period of 8 weeks. Before and after the intervention, stimulus-locked e...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - November 15, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

The Interplay Between Affective and Cognitive Factors in Shaping Early Proficiency in Mathematics
Publication date: Available online 23 October 2017 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Elisa Cargnelutti, Carlo Tomasetto, Maria Chiara Passolunghi Performing math tasks is a complex process that requires the recruitment of many cognitive and affective factors. Research on the interplay between cognitive and affective factors associated with math ability is surprisingly scarce in primary school children. In the present study, we examined the contribution of both general and math-specific anxiety to math performance in a large sample of second-grade schoolchildren, and also their relation with differ...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - October 24, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Perturbations on the uniform distribution of p-values can lead to misleading inferences from null-hypothesis testing
Publication date: Available online 16 October 2017 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): László Zsolt Garamszegi, Pierre de Villemereuil Null-hypothesis testing (NHT) based on statistical significance is the most conventional statistical framework, on which neuroscientists rely for the analysis of their data. However, this approach can provide misleading results if p-values are wrongly interpreted, as often done in practice. Misconceptions can arise, in particular, when i) wrong null-hypothesis is chosen for reference; ii) the assumptions of the statistical model are not met; iii) p-values are interp...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - October 16, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Number line estimation under working memory load: dissociations between working memory subsystems
Publication date: Available online 12 September 2017 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Sarit Ashkenazi, Shir Shapira The preverbal representation of quantity has been shown to associate with space, as quantities are spatially mapped on a mental number line. One traditional method to test this association is the number line estimation task that asks participants to locate a number on a number line. However, current approaches suggest that number line estimation task performance involves verbally mediated strategies such as reliance on reference points, questioning the nature of the task as a measure...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - September 13, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over the Left Temporoparietal Cortex Facilitates Assembled Phonology
Publication date: Available online 5 September 2017 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Hongli Xue, Libo Zhao, Yapeng Wang, Qi Dong, Chuansheng Chen, Gui Xue A major challenge in learning to read an alphabetic language is to learn to map graphemes to phonemes (i.e., assembled phonology). Previous imaging studies have revealed that the left temporoparietal cortex (LTPC) is associated with assembled phonology. By combining high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) and an artificial language training paradigm, the present study aimed to examine the causal role of LTPC in asse...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - September 6, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Training numerical skills with the adaptive videogame "The Number Race": A randomized controlled trial on preschoolers
Publication date: June 2017 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education, Volume 7 Author(s): Francesco Sella, Patrizio Tressoldi, Daniela Lucangeli, Marco Zorzi (Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education)
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - August 3, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

The Role of Mathematical Anxiety and Working Memory on the Performance of Different Types of Arithmetic Tasks
Publication date: Available online 11 May 2017 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Sarit Ashkenazi, Yehudit Danan Goal of the current study was to compare the respective roles of domain general cognitive skills with domain specific quantitative understanding, as well as the effect of math anxiety, on the performance of different types of arithmetic tasks. Fifty-eight adults performed a battery of tests. We found dissociations between domain general abilities that supported verbally or spatially mediated arithmetic tasks. The verbally mediated tasks were supported by the verbal central executive compo...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - May 12, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

The Neuroscience of Intelligence: Empirical Support for the Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
Publication date: Available online 17 February 2017 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): C. Branton Shearer, Jessica M. Karanian The concept of intelligence has been strongly debated since introduction of IQ tests in the early 1900s. Numerous alternatives to unitary intelligence have achieved limited acceptance by both psychologists and educators. Despite criticism that it lacks empirical validity, multiple intelligences theory (Gardner, H. (1983, 1993) Frames of mind: The theory of multiple intelligences, New York: Basic Books), has had sustained interest on the part of educators worldwide. MI theory...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - February 16, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

The Hard Problem of ‘Educational Neuroscience’
Publication date: Available online 14 February 2017 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Kelsey Palghat, Jared C. Horvath, Jason M. Lodge Differing worldviews give interdisciplinary work value. However, these same differences are the primary hurdle to productive communication between disciplines. Here, we argue that philosophical issues of metaphysics and epistemology subserve many of the differences in language, methods and motivation that plague interdisciplinary fields like educational neuroscience. Researchers attempting interdisciplinary work may be unaware that issues of philosophy are intimate...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - February 13, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

A critical analysis of design, facts, bias and inference in the approximate number system training literature: a systematic review
Publication date: Available online 29 November 2016 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Denes Szűcs, Timothy Myers A popular suggestion states that an evolutionarily grounded analogue magnitude representation, also called an approximate number system (ANS) or ‘number sense’ underlies human mathematical knowledge. During recent years many studies aimed to train the ANS with the intention of transferring improvements to symbolic arithmetic. Here we critically evaluate all published studies. We conclude that there is no conclusive evidence that specific ANS training improves symbolic arithmetic. We...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - November 29, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Predicting Long-term Outcomes of Educational Interventions Using the Evolutionary Causal Matrices and Markov Chain Based on Educational Neuroscience
Publication date: Available online 24 November 2016 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Hyemin Han, Kangwook Lee, Firat Soylu We developed a prediction model based on the evolutionary causal matrices (ECM) and the Markov Chain to predict long-term influences of educational interventions on adolescents’ development. Particularly, we created a computational model predicting longitudinal influences of different types of stories of moral exemplars on adolescents’ voluntary service participation. We tested whether the developed prediction model can properly predict a long-term longitudinal trend of c...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - November 23, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research