Articles About learning science

The 1967 experiment is famous. What almost nobody mentions is that the researchers behind it later published a paper calling their own interpretation backwards.

Your brain runs about two degrees hotter than your mouth, swings almost a full degree across the day, and loses control before heat feels like a problem.

What happens in your white matter when you practise something, how fast the change starts, and which parts of the popular myelin story do not hold up.

How to know when you've studied enough has a real answer in memory science. The catch: feeling ready and being ready are rarely the same thing.

Most students prepare the way that feels productive, not the way that works. Here is what cognitive science actually says about getting ready for an exam.

A Nobel physicist's habit of explaining hard ideas in plain words became a famous study method. Here is the science behind why it works, and where it fails.

The brain does not just think. It watches itself thinking. Metacognition drives successful learning, and the science behind it is stranger than most realize.

Transfer of learning decides whether what you study ever leaves the textbook. Neuroscience reveals why most knowledge stays trapped where it was first learned.

Active recall for board exams is the single most studied learning technique in cognitive science, yet most medical students still default to re-reading.