Neuroscientists and educational psychologists are constantly learning more about how children learn and the various influences beyond IQ that affect cognition. Some research, like Carol Dweck’s on ...

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A beloved cartoon character may be slowing children's mental functions, a new study led a professor at the University of Virginia says. The new study suggests that watching just nine minutes of the ...

The databases Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase and the Cochrane Library were used to search for relevant papers from inception, initially to February 2010, and then updated to March 2014. Both indexing and ...