Developmental psychologist Andrew Meltzoff codirects the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. In the July 17 Science , Meltzoff and his colleagues ...

Thought experiments can have some advantages over real experiments: they require no special equipment, are low-cost, can be ...

Mayer’s research combines cognition, instruction and technology to examine multimedia learning and learning in computer-supported environments and via computer games. “The unifying goal is to conduct ...

For its symposium next week, the Science of Learning Institute has borrowed the famous tagline chanted at passengers of the London Underground—"Mind the Gap." In this case, "the gap" refers to the ...

An engaging new book about brain science can help teachers make their classroom practice more effective. In an ideal world, teachers would routinely get this kind of valuable information during ...

If you slept through most of your science classes as a kid, it might be because you never had anyone to explain all of those ...