News tagged with visual learners
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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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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Professor shows the 'wonder-full' side of physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- The audience laughs and applauds as the performers on stage pull trick after trick from their sleeves: suspending a ball in midair, defying gravity, turning water into ice right before people's ...
Jul 13, 2010 |
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A Test in Producing a Visual Capture of Speech
(PhysOrg.com) -- Diana Archangeli, a UA linguistics professor, is heading up a team using ultrasound and other devices to create a technology that would enable the detection of words without auditory cues.
Jun 14, 2010 |
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It's a small world (for small people) after all
(PhysOrg.com) -- Lab-coated and goggled, Troy Dassler's 15 third graders are itching to power up their digital optical microscopes.
May 10, 2010 |
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