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Individual Differences in Social Cognition as Predictors of Secondary School Performance
Publication date: Available online 10 November 2016 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Jeffrey Derks, Jelle Jolles, Joost van Rijn, Lydia Krabbendam Understanding social-cognitive factors that determine school performance could contribute to educational innovations. Social interaction, collaboration and the motivation to learn are important aspects of present-day education. Social-cognitive development can therefore be expected to impact school performance. This was evaluated in the present longitudinal study. The social-cognitive variables mindreading, social value orientation, empathizing and sy...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - November 9, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Shared temporoparietal dysfunction in dyslexia and typical readers with discrepantly high IQ
Publication date: Available online 3 November 2016 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Roeland Hancock, John D.E. Gabrieli, Fumiko Hoeft It is currently believed that reading disability (RD) should be defined by reading level without regard to broader aptitude (IQ). There is debate, however, about how to classify individuals who read in the typical range but less well than would be expected by their higher IQ. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 49 children to examine whether those with typical, but discrepantly low reading ability relative to IQ, show dyslexia-like activation pa...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - November 2, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Computer usage for learning how to read and write in primary school
Publication date: Available online 26 July 2016 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Petra A. Arndt Digital media are central to exchange information. Young people without sufficient literacy knowledge cannot participate in this digital society. Thus, starting to train reading and training writing with digital media as early as possible seems reasonable. But how early? Should we teach first writing and reading with digital devices? Practitioners and policy makers discuss this issue controversially. Scientific results lead to contradictory conclusions. It has been shown that writing by hand improves let...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - September 13, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Bilingual benefits in education and health
Publication date: June 2016 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education, Volume 5, Issue 2 Author(s): Manfred Spitzer Bilingualism is defined as the everyday use of more than one language. Globally, more than half of the population is bilingual, but there are huge regional differences, with only one fifth of the population speaking two languages in the USA and Canada, whereas in some countries, bilingualism or even multilingualism being more or less the norm. The benefits of bilingualism in terms of communicative skills are obvious in the modern society and globalized economy. Additional benefits exist in terms of the e...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - September 6, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Writing in the digital age
Publication date: Available online 27 July 2016 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Markus Kiefer, Jean-Luc Velay (Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education)
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - July 27, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Computerusage for learning how to read and write in primary school
Publication date: Available online 26 July 2016 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Petra A. Arndt Digital media are central to exchange information. Young people without sufficient literacy knowledge can’t participate in this digital society. Thus, starting to train reading and training writing with digital media as early as possible seems reasonable. But how early? Should we teach first writing and reading with digital devices? Practitioners and policy makers discuss this issue controversially. Scientific results lead to contradictory conclusions. It has been shown that writing by hand improves...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - July 26, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Motor expertise for typing impacts lexical decision performance
Publication date: Available online 25 July 2016 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Tania Cerni, Jean-Luc Velay, F.-Xavier Alario, Marianne Vaugoyeau, Marieke Longcamp The massive shift of writing habits calls for a better understanding of the possible consequences of typing practice on language processing, including reading. To assess a possible impact of typing knowledge on word recognition, we built a set of words and pseudowords differing by their ratio of bimanual transitions between letters, an index of typing difficulty for experts. An effect of typing difficulty was observed in expe...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - July 25, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Idea Units in Notes and Summaries for Read Texts by Keyboard and Pencil in Middle Childhood Students with Specific Learning Disabilities: Cognitive and Brain Findings
Publication date: Available online 21 July 2016 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Todd Richards, Stephen Peverly, Amie Wolf, Robert Abbott, Steven Tanimoto, Rob Thompson, William Nagy, Virginia Berninger Seven children with dyslexia and/or dysgraphia (2 girls, 5 boys, M=11 years) completed fMRI connectivity scans before and after twelve weekly computerized lessons in strategies for reading source material, taking notes, and writing summaries by touch typing or groovy pencils. During brain scanning they completed two reading comprehension tasks—one involving single sentences and on...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - July 22, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

BilingualBenefits in Education and Health
Publication date: Available online 22 July 2016 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Manfred Spitzer Bilingualism is defined as the everyday use of more than one language. Globally, more than half of the population is bilingual, but there are huge regional differences, with only one fifth of the population speaking two languages in the USA and Canada, whereas in some countries, bilingualism or even multilingualism being more or less the norm. The benefits of bilingualism in terms of communicative skills are obvious in the modern society and globalized economy. Additional benefits exist in terms of t...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - July 22, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Visual-motor functional connectivity in preschool children emerges after handwriting experience
Publication date: Available online 22 July 2016 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education Author(s): Sophia Vinci-Booher, Thomas W. James, Karin H. James Handwriting letters has been shown to increase Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) signal during letter perception in visual and motor brain regions relative to other types of training in preschool children. However, co-activation in these regions speaks neither to the presence of functional connections between them nor to the experiences by which such connections might be established. We investigated functional connectivity by applying generalized psychophysi...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - July 22, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

To swipe or not to swipe? —The question in present-day education
Publication date: September–December 2013 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education, Volume 2, Issues 3–4 Author(s): Manfred Spitzer (Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education)
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - July 20, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Influence of blue-enriched classroom lighting on students ׳ cognitive performance
Publication date: September–December 2014 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education, Volume 3, Issues 3–4 Author(s): Oliver Keis, Hannah Helbig, Judith Streb, Katrin Hille Light is a powerful zeitgeber that synchronizes our endogenous circadian pacemaker with the environment and has been previously described as an agent in improving cognitive performance. With that in mind, this study was designed to explore the influence of exposure to blue-enriched white light in the morning on the performance of adolescent students. 58 High school students were recruited from four classes in two schools. In each school...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - July 20, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Effects of mental rotation training on children ’s spatial and mathematics performance: A randomized controlled study
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education, Volume 4, Issue 3 Author(s): Zachary Hawes, Joan Moss, Beverly Caswell, Daniel Poliszczuk The purpose of the current study was to (i) investigate the malleability of children’s spatial thinking, and (ii) the extent to which training-related gains in spatial thinking generalize to mathematics performance. Sixty-one 6- to 8-year-olds were randomly assigned to either computerized mental rotation training or literacy training. Training took place on iPad devices over a 6-week period as part of regular classroom activity. Results reveale...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - July 20, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

When I Met my brain: Participating in a neuroimaging study influences children ’s naïve mind–brain conceptions
Publication date: December 2015 Source:Trends in Neuroscience and Education, Volume 4, Issue 4 Author(s): Sandrine Rossi, Céline Lanoë, Nicolas Poirel, Arlette Pineau, Olivier Houdé, Amélie Lubin Children who participate in neuroimaging research most likely revise their naïve conceptions about the brain, the mind and their relation. Our aim was to explore this educational effect by comparing two groups of 8-year-old children with and without MRI experiences. Our Mind–Brain Questionnaire allowed us to explore the participants’ naïve conceptions through different cognitive functions. The results rev...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - July 20, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Learning handwriting at school – A teachers' survey on actual problems and future options
The objective of this study was to capture the current problem situation in German primary and secondary schools with regard to handwriting. Understanding the causes of handwriting problems is necessary in order to develop sustainable solutions to make the teaching of handwriting more effective and to enable more appropriate writing materials to be designed. In total, 1907 teachers throughout Germany took part in the survey. In the opinion of all teachers, more than 30% of girls and more than 50% of boys have problems acquiring fluid and legible handwriting. The differences between boys and girls were statistically signifi...
Source: Trends in Neuroscience and Education - July 17, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research