An NIH study found that short 10-second breaks while practicing a new skill can dramatically speed up learning.

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...

I was recently getting a much-needed haircut with a new stylist, and in our small talk, he asked me what I do for a living. I explained that I teach current and future teachers how people learn and do ...

In the Karate Kid movies from the 1980s, main character Daniel LaRusso has a karate teacher (or sensei) named Mr. Miyagi, who has him paint fences and wax cars. When LaRusso trains students in the ...

Kids love to do things on repeat. The same books read over and over, the same games, the same questions. It can be exhausting for parents, but researchers say repetition is key to childhood learning.

Sometimes we remember things that we did not even know we had memorised and sometimes the opposite happens – we want to remember something that we know we’ve learned but are not able to recall it.