International large-scale education assessments (ILSAs) are used to compare the performance of countries’ educational systems, but these rankings can be
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A heavy working memory load may sink brainwave ‘synch’
Everyday experience makes it obvious — sometimes frustratingly so — that our working memory capacity is limited. We can only
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Memory training needs to target specific difficulties to be effective, suggests study: A recently published Baycrest study suggests that training programs can help, but only if they are tailored towards an individual’s specific memory difficulty, such as trouble remembering faces, voices or recent events
When people hear that their memory will worsen as they age, the question on their minds becomes: what can we
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