Dopaminergic Polymorphisms and Educational Achievement: Results From a Longitudinal Sample of Americans Kevin M. Beaver, John Paul Wright, Matt DeLisi, and Michael G. Vaughn “Although educational attainment has been found to be moderately heritable, research has yet to explore candidate genes for it. Drawing on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, in […]
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Study Alert: Rest Is Not Idleness: Implications of the Brain’s Default Mode for Human Development and Education
Rest Is Not Idleness: Implications of the Brain’s Default Mode for Human Development and Education Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Joanna A. Christodoulou and Vanessa Singh When people wakefully rest in the functional MRI scanner, their minds wander, and they engage a so-called default mode (DM) of neural processing that is relatively suppressed when attention is focused on […]
STUDY ALERT: A New Era of School Reform: Going Where the Research Takes Us
A New Era of School Reform: Going Where the Research Takes Us Robert J. Marzano This monograph provides a quantitative review of the research literature regarding school-, teacher-, and student-level variables that affect student achievement. That review has resulted in a perspective on school reform that is far more optimistic than those promoted […]
STUDY ALERT: Reexamining the Role of Gifted Education and Talent Development for the 21st Century
Reexamining the Role of Gifted Education and Talent Development for the 21st Century: A Four-Part Theoretical Approach Joseph Renzulli Why and how should a society devote special resources to the development of giftedness in young people for the twenty-first century? If we agree that the goals of gifted education and talent development are to maximize […]
STUDY ALERT: Psychopaths show less emotional leakage
Would I lie to you? ‘‘leakage’’ in deceptive facial expressions relates to psychopathy and emotional intelligence Stephen Porter, Leanne ten Brinke, Alysha Baker, Brendan Wallace This was the first investigation of individual differences in adopting deceptive universal emotional expressions. We hypothesized that psychopathic traits would lead to a heightened ability to suppress emotional expressions […]
STUDY ALERT: Prefrontal Activity Mediates the Effect of COMT on Cognitive Control and IQ
A Gene–Brain–Cognition Pathway: Prefrontal Activity Mediates the Effect of COMT on Cognitive Control and IQ Adam E. Green, David J. M. Kraemer, Colin G. DeYoung, John A. Fossella and Jeremy R. Gray A core thesis of cognitive neurogenetic research is that genetic effects on cognitive ability are mediated by specific neural functions, however, demonstrating neural […]
STUDY ALERT: Working-memory training in younger and older adults
Working-memory training in younger and older adults: training gains, transfer, and maintenance Yvonne Brehmer, Helena Westerberg and Lars Bäckman Working memory (WM), a key determinant of many higher-order cognitive functions, declines in old age. Current research attempts to develop process-specific WM training procedures, which may lead to general cognitive improvement. Adaptivity of the […]
STUDY ALERT: Brain white matter tract integrity as a neural foundation for general intelligence
Brain white matter tract integrity as a neural foundation for general intelligence L Penke, S Munoz Maniega, ME Bastin, MC Valdes Hernandez, C Murray, NA Royle, JM Starr, JM Wardlaw and IJ Deary General intelligence is a robust predictor of important life outcomes, including educational and occupational attainment, successfully managing everyday life situations, good health […]
STUDY ALERT: No evidence of intelligence improvement after working memory training
No evidence of intelligence improvement after working memory training: A randomized, placebo-controlled study Thomas S. Redick, Zach Shipstead, Tyler L. Harrison, Kenny L. Hicks, David E. Fried, David Z. Hambrick, Michael J. Kane, Randall W. Engle Numerous recent studies seem to provide evidence for the general intellectual benefits of working memory training. In reviews of the training […]
STUDY ALERT: The Nature and Organization of Individual Differences in Executive Functions
The Nature and Organization of Individual Differences in Executive Functions : Four General Conclusions Akira Miyake and Naomi P. Friedman Executive functions (EFs)—a set of general-purpose control processes that regulate one’s thoughts and behaviors—have become a popular research topic lately and have been studied in many subdisciplines of psychological science. This article summarizes the EF […]
STUDY ALERT: Shaping achievement goal orientations and changes in self-worth
Shaping achievement goal orientations in a mastery-structured environment and concomitant changes in related contingencies of self-worth Paul A. O’Keefe • Adar Ben-Eliyahu • Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia Across three time-points spanning 9 months, changes in achievement goal orientations and contingencies of self-worth were assessed as a function of participating in a mastery-structured academic program for high-ability adolescents […]
STUDY ALERT: Does Personal Intelligence Exist?
Does Personal Intelligence Exist? Evidence From a New Ability-Based Measure John D. Mayer, A.T. Panter, and David Caruso Personal intelligence has been defined as the ability to reason about personality and personality-relevant information and to use that information to guide one’s actions and more generally, one’s life. We constructed an initial version of an ability-based […]