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What developmental research can teach us about memory, reasoning, arithmetic retrieval and changing problem-solving strategies.
Explore cognitive and neuroscience research that helps explain how learning becomes more efficient and how reasoning systems develop with experience.
Soohyun Cho et al. · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Arithmetic retrieval is a genuine cognitive skill with a developmental brain basis, but product-specific neuroscience claims require product-specific studies.
The development of arithmetic fact retrieval has measurable neural correlates and changes with maturation and skill.
Shaozheng Qin et al. · Nature Neuroscience
Learning arithmetic is accompanied by changing brain activity, but the educational conclusion should remain about learning the skill, not marketing a brain effect.
Longitudinal evidence that children’s arithmetic learning is accompanied by changes in hippocampal-neocortical engagement as fact retrieval develops.
Kirstie J. Whitaker et al. · Developmental Science
Learning to map relationships across different situations is a developing cognitive capacity that becomes increasingly important as problems grow more abstract.
Analogical reasoning improved markedly across childhood and adolescence and was associated with developing brain systems involved in relational reasoning and cognitive control.
Paul L. Morgan et al. · Child Development
The ability to hold a goal, switch perspective and resist distractions is connected with learning across more than one school subject.
Working memory, cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control in kindergarten predicted later reading, mathematics and science achievement in a large longitudinal sample.