News tagged with reasoning processes

Physics education improves when students make their own computer models

Jul 02, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

A current trend in secondary science education is for students to learn by discovering for themselves how things work. Computer modelling is a teaching method that fits in nicely with this trend and also with new learning ...

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How scientists think: Fostering creativity in problem solving

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Sep 21, 2009 | 2.1 / 5 (9) | 4

Profound discoveries and insights on the frontiers of science do not burst out of thin air but often arise from incremental processes of weaving together analogies, images, and simulations in a constrained fashion. In cutting-edge ...

New Cortex Study Uncovers How We Recognize What is True and What is False

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Jun 17, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

A recent neuroimaging study reveals that the ability to distinguish true from false in our daily lives involves two distinct processes. Previous research relied heavily on the premise that true and false statements are both ...

Remote Brainwaves Predict Future Eureka Moment

Medicine & Health / Research

Sep 09, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (12) | 0

Real-world problems come in two broad flavors: those requiring sequential reasoning and those requiring transformative reasoning: a break from past thinking and restructuring followed by an insight (also known as Eureka or ...

Heart disease is linked to worse mental processes that, in turn, predict the onset of dementia

Medicine & Health / Research

Jul 23, 2008 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

Coronary heart disease is associated with a worse performance in mental processes such as reasoning, vocabulary and verbal fluency, according to a study of 5837 middle-aged Whitehall civil servants. The study also found that ...

Intelligence and rhythmic accuracy go hand in hand

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Apr 16, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (30) | 5

People who score high on intelligence tests are also good at keeping time, new Swedish research shows. The team that carried out the study also suspect that accuracy in timing is important to the brain processes responsible ...

Playing video games offers learning across life span, say studies

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Aug 17, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (7) | 5

Certain types of video games can have beneficial effects, improving gamers' dexterity as well as their ability to problem-solve – attributes that have proven useful not only to students but to surgeons, according to research ...

Is it e-government's saviour? An automatic knowledge filter

Technology / Computer Sciences

Sep 17, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative new knowledge management concept has the potential to revolutionise the way government administrators work.

Cosmologists expose flaws in anthropic reasoning

Physics / General Physics

Nov 28, 2006 | 3.7 / 5 (81) | 0

Many scientists never liked it anyway, and now Glenn Starkman from Oxford/Case Western and Roberto Trotta from Oxford show that too many details—and too many unknowns—mean that anthropic reasoning gives inconsistent ...

Will you be misdiagnosed? -- how diagnostic errors happen

Medicine & Health / Other

Apr 28, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

How frequently do doctors misdiagnose patients? While research has demonstrated that the great majority of medical diagnoses are correct, the answer is probably higher than patients expect and certainly higher than doctors ...