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Category: February 2026–Memory & Learning
Great Ideas from the Brain Sciences: The Work Behind Working Memory
Great Ideas from the Brain Sciences: The Work Behind Working Memory By: Mirela C. C. Ramacciotti How much work do you think students have to put into tasks to learn?
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Learning as More Than Just Neurons Connecting By: Curtis Kelly Let’s look at memory and learning in terms of neuroscience. But to just say learning is neurons connecting via synapses,
Applied Cognitive Linguistics in an Intercultural World
Applied Cognitive Linguistics in an Intercultural World By: Rodolfo Mattiello Whenever you are teaching a language, if Mikhail Bakhtine (1977) was as present throughout your undergraduate days as he was
Where the Brain Meets the World: Emotion, Language, and Care in a Time of Everything-At-Once
Where the Brain Meets the World: Emotion, Language, and Care in a Time of Everything-At-Once By: Lynsey Mori Metacrisis in the classroom: Everything everywhere, all at once (2022) We are
The Sphinx and the Five Noble Truths of Memory
The Sphinx and the Five Noble Truths of Memory By: Heather Kretschmer Last October, I had the good fortune to attend a conference on playfulness in higher education in Uppsala,