brain science

Separating Education Research from Marketing

There’s so much hype about education products and services, many of these claiming to have scientific research to back them up. Perhaps the best example of this is the “brain training” industry, which presents itself as scientific fact. Not so fast, said a group of psychology and neuroscience professors this week, as they issued a […]

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Should You Build a Brain-Based School?

There’s a push for teachers and students to draw on our knowledge from neuroscience to rethink how we teach and learn. This includes, for example, a variety of new “brain training” tools that promise to make us learn more efficiently. But what does neuroscience really say? Randolph-Macon College psychology professor Cedar Riener helps differentiate here

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