News tagged with visual learner
Learning styles debunked
Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you've pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. And you're not alone— for ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 16, 2009 |
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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 |
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Is technology producing a decline in critical thinking and analysis?
As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 28, 2009 |
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NASA viz app will now take users across the universe
The NASA Visualization Explorer is now delivering new opportunities to explore NASA's research of the sun, planetary bodies, Earth and the universe to your iPad.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 14, 2012 |
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Teach your robot well (Georgia Tech shows how)
Within a decade, personal robots could become as common in U.S. homes as any other major appliance, and many if not most of these machines will be able to perform innumerable tasks not explicitly imagined by their manufacturers. ...
Mar 08, 2012 |
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How social media help save an endangered language
(PhysOrg.com) -- There was a time when everyone living in Michigan grew up speaking the native language of the area's indigenous people. Now less than 10 people born in the state are fluent, yet more than 2,700 people "like" ...
Feb 21, 2012 |
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E-learning must synch or sink
(PhysOrg.com) -- According to one University of Alberta researcher, people looking to further their education through e-learning may want to look carefully at the conditions under which online coursework will ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Visual nudge improves accuracy of mammogram readings
In 2011 -- to the consternation of women everywhere -- a systematic review of randomized clinical trials showed that routine mammography was of little value to younger women at average or low risk of breast ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Octopuses make some pretty good moves, researchers show
In case you thought that octopuses were smart only in guessing the outcome of soccer matches (remember the late Paul the octopus in Germany who picked all the right winners in last year's world cup matches ...
May 18, 2011 |
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Brain scientists offer medical educators tips on the neurobiology of learning
Everyone would like MDs to have the best education – and to absorb what they are taught. The lead article in the April 4 issue of the journal Academic Medicine* connects research on how the brain learns to how to inc ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 30, 2011 |
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New journal promotes computational science education
A new online publication unveiled this week, the Journal Of Computational Science Education (JOCSE), will publish peer-reviewed articles focusing on various aspects of teaching computational science – ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 21, 2010 |
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Innovative approach to teaching forensics helps students track and solve crimes
A novel approach to teaching forensics at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Forensic Anthropology Field School is using global positioning systems (GPS) and geographical information systems (GIS) to examine complex ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 13, 2010 |
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'Virtual mates' reveal role of romance in parrot calls
Parrots are famed for their ability to mimic sounds and now researchers have used 'virtual mates' to discover if female parrots judge male contact calls when deciding on a mate. The research, published in ...
Aug 03, 2010 |
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