Cheng was the guest speaker at the second-annual Celebration of Math and Music, an event hosted by the partnership between the Jacobs School of Music and the math department in the College of Arts and ...

“When left-brain thinkers dominate, media products face a value proposition crisis — funnels and operations are optimized, but creativity is stifled.” The real divide in newsrooms isn’t between ...

A study suggests that carefully controlled electrical stimulation of the brain may improve math skills, most significantly in people with weaker connections in a specific part of the brain. When you ...

For decades, the idea that creativity comes from the right side of the brain has dominated popular culture. People have been told they're either "right-brained" (creative, intuitive) or "left-brained" ...

Far too many students enter math class expecting to fail. For them, math isn’t just a subject–it’s a source of anxiety that chips away at their confidence and makes them question their abilities. A ...

A painless, non-invasive brain stimulation technique can significantly improve how young adults learn math, my colleagues and I found in a recent study. In a paper in PLOS Biology, we describe how ...