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Jun 29, 2020

Playtime with dad may improve children's self-control - "Children whose fathers make time to play with them from a very young age may find it easier to control their behaviour and emotions as they grow up, research suggests."

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Feb 28, 2020

What children choose to read outside school directly influences their academic performance. The average marks of pupils who read books rose by 0.22 points overall, which is the equivalent of 3 months' worth of additional secondary school academic growth.

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Feb 26, 2020

A new study has shown for the first time that connectedness to nature makes children happier due to their tendency to perform sustainable and pro-ecological behaviors. Researchers state that a disconnection to nature, termed 'nature deficit disorder', may contribute to the destruction of the planet

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Jan 17, 2020

Stray dogs can understand human cues. Untrained stray dogs respond to gestures from people, showing that understanding between humans and dogs transcends training. Dogs can closely observe a human and use their understanding of humans to make a decision. This shows intelligence and adaptability.

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Jan 11, 2020

During play, baby and adult brains are "on the same wavelength", experiencing similar brain activity in the same brain regions, find Princeton researchers. When a baby and adult play together, their brains influence each other in dynamic ways, thereby forming a feedback loop.

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Dec 09, 2019

In areas with low literacy rates, showing videos demonstrating agricultural techniques results in high retention and adoption rates of those techniques. Being shown an animated video on a postharvest bean storage method, farmers had a 97% retention rate and 89% adoption of the storage solution.

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Jul 25, 2019

A new study involving preschool teachers(n=96) during class story times found that they asked few questions, and those they did ask were usually too simple. Only 24 percent of what teachers said outside of reading the text were questions, and the kids answered those correctly 85 percent of the time.

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Jul 25, 2019

A new study involving preschool teachers(n=96) during class story times found that they asked few questions, and those they did ask were usually too simple. Only 24 percent of what teachers said outside of reading the text were questions, and the kids answered those correctly 85 percent of the time.

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Jun 22, 2019

Your brain activity can be used to measure how well you understand a concept. The study is one of the first to look at how knowledge learned in school is represented in the brain

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Apr 17, 2019

Research demonstrated that we become more confident in our choices when learning to seek rewards than when learning to avoid losses. However, this confidence rapidly evolves into over-confidence, which leaves us thinking that we are better than we actually are.

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Mar 30, 2019

A study has found musical training produces lasting improvements to a cognitive mechanism that helps individuals be more attentive and less likely to be distracted by irrelevant stimuli while performing demanding tasks.

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