Category learning is a fundamental cognitive process that enables humans and other species to organise complex sensory input into meaningful groups. This ability underpins decision‐making and adaptive ...

A high-quality preschool curriculum gives children opportunities to build both social-emotional and cognitive skills as they learn.

A name can matter a lot. When social science researchers wanted to make a distinction between how students approached different aspects of the learning process, they coined the somewhat awkward term ...

Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) explains how learning is influenced by the limited capacity of working memory. By understanding and managing different types of cognitive load, faculty can design more ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Processes That Support Learning." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and ...

If we’re going to contend effectively with the damage wrought by fake news, then we first have to understand how it exploits our adaptive learning processes. Source: Hackernoon Fake news has dominated ...

Your content may be costing you sales. Learn how cognitive load drains working memory—and how to reduce friction so more readers understand, trust and buy.

Educational technologies are increasingly embedded in early childhood learning environments, from preschool through the first years of primary school and ...

Marketers yearn to be able to read their consumers’ minds. If we could only understand what our consumers are thinking and feeling as they think and feel it, we could create more effective ...

This post was co-authored with Professor John Vervaeke 1. Thinking, Fast and Slow is one of the great books written on cognition and decision making. In a clear and accessible fashion, it made popular ...