News tagged with cognitive style

Visual learners convert words to pictures in the brain and vice versa

A University of Pennsylvania psychology study, using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to scan the brain, reveals that people who consider themselves visual learners, as opposed to verbal learners, have a tendency ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Mar 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 1

All work and no play makes for troubling trend in early education

Parents and educators who favor traditional classroom-style learning over free, unstructured playtime in preschool and kindergarten may actually be stunting a child's development instead of enhancing it, according ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Feb 12, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 2