Attention

The Yerkes-Dodson Law and the resulting Inverted U Curve of Arousal vs. Performance was created by psychologists Robert Yerkes and John Dodson more than one hundred years ago (1908). But what is [...]

Do more than just prevent or reverse “summer slide”: elevate your potential. Clinical Director, Dr. Ron Minson discusses the many merits of a Summer Program and shares stories of students who [...]

More children in the United States were diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in 2011 than in 2003. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [...]

Ah, Thanksgiving: a time for family, friends, football, food…and sleep. People have long associated tryptophan from turkey with the need for a good nap or early night’s sleep after Thanksgiving [...]

Why are boys less interested in reading than girls? A new study from Norway’s University of Stavanger evaluated preschool-aged children to determine when and how the linguistic divide between [...]

The evidence for the importance of music training for young people continues to grow, thanks to a new study from Northwestern University. The study contributes to a body of evidence suggesting [...]

Many people listen to music to relax and numerous studies have demonstrated that listening to music has benefits. New research from the Royal College of Music’s Centre for Performance Science [...]

When the brain receives conflicting sensory information, it figures out what it perceives based on information from other senses and from past experience. The result is that what you see is not [...]

What do children who do well in school have in common? According to a new study from the Universities of Nottingham and Bristol, children with better attention skills score higher on tests. The [...]

Focusing too intently on something can blind you to other, potentially better solutions. A recent study investigated how the brain switches focus to incorporate new information from the [...]