![Memory: Why Drill Can Kill – and What to Do Instead [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/memory-graphic-our-shutterstock-scaled.jpg)
It would almost seem without question that repetition should be helpful for learning, but researchers have found that if repetitions are too much and too long (longer than 10 seconds in one paradigm), further repetition caused poorer memory and word retrieval rather than better! From one of the papers below: “Both Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated a […]
Last week, I had a chance to chat with Stanford's Tanya Evans and Georgetown's Michael Ullman about their recent research paper about procedural learning and math. In their paper, their definition of procedural learning relates to the type of learning that...
![How Dyslexic MIND Strengths Integrate with Multiple Intelligences [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/our-shutterstock-color-bulb.jpg)
In our book, The Dyslexic Advantage, we spoke about the 4 MIND strengths common in adult dyslexics: M for Material Reasoning, I for Interdisciplinary Reasoning, N for Narrative Reasoning, and D from Dynamic Reasoning. These skill clusters and talent sets had parallels in brain systems and processes as well as careers, domains of expertise, and […]
![Q & A: Can Someone Be Both Dyslexic and Autistic ? [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dyslexia-autism.jpg)
QUESTION: Is it Possible to Have Both Dyslexia and Autism? The short answer is yes, but it’s likely not very common and in general many of the features of dyslexia and autism are opposite. By strict criteria, low IQ and autism are excluded from the diagnosis of dyslexia. However, it is not difficult to speculate […]
![New Research: Brain Scans Predict Cognitive Performance [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-05-12-at-12.40.17-PM.jpg)
“This suggests that individual differences in many cognitive tasks are a stable trait marker.” There’s a new Oxford research study circulating through scientific communities and around the world. From Science (Task-free MRI predicts individual differences in brain activity during task performance), Tavor and collegues applied machine-learning principles to test subjects in a “resting state” to […]
![This is Your Brain on Words [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2019-10-08-at-4.20.07-PM.jpg)
In breaking research from UC Berkeley, researchers have found a complicated filing system when it comes to how we process words that we hear. While listening to stories, individual words triggered tiny activation explosions all over the brain associated with word associations – “Words were grouped under various headings: visual, tactile, numeric, locational, abstract, temporal, professional, […]
