Some basic principles of the development of the central nervous system (CNS) are reviewed and their implications for both normal and abnormal behavioral development are discussed. The goals of this ...

You Do The Math: Explaining Basic Concepts Behind Math Problems Improves Children's Learning Date: April 12, 2009 Source: Vanderbilt University Summary: Students benefit more from being taught the ...

"Teaching children the basic concept behind math problems was more useful than teaching children a procedure for solving the problems – these children gave better explanations and learned more ...

Significant effects emerged with regard to gender, age, dimension of self-concept, and educational transition. As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development, Child ...

The study of language development in children reveals that linguistic exposure is not merely about vocabulary growth but is integral to the formation of generic concepts—broad, abstract ...

In a 10-year longitudinal study on children's mathematical development from kindergarten to seventh grade, he found that instruction at preschool level made all the difference.

It is the first randomised trial to look at whether a basic income might affect the way a child’s brain develops in this critical period.