Learning something new is all about memory and how you use it. At first, your prefrontal cortex, which stores your working (or short-term) memory, is really busy figuring out how it’s done. That’s the ...

"When we look at living creatures from an outward point of view, one of the first things that strike us is that they are bundles of habits. The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over ...

In the Commentary “Timed Tests and the Development of Math Anxiety,” (edweek.org, July 3, 2012) Jo Boaler is right about the negative aspects of timed tests. Drill-and-kill tests have been around for ...

When we consider automatic behaviors, digestion, blood circulation, and breathing are often mentioned. But what about making a grilled cheese sandwich or shaving? Are they in any way automatic? Yes, ...

If you want to become world-class at what you do, you must get to the point where it becomes unconscious and automatic. Learning new things engages your prefrontal cortex, which operates via your ...

This experimental study examines the extent to which 60 adult Japanese ESL learners were able to acquire a rule regulating the argument structure frames of novel verbs of English after exposure to ...

Many self-help books claim that if you want to develop a good habit, you should at least practice it for 21 days. Some ...

Dans cet article nous étudions la complexité de la description (i) de suites sur un alphabet fini et (ii) de sous-ensembles de l'ensemble N des entiers naturels. Soit (s(i)) i≥o une suite sur un ...