Results for "learning"

Projects

Project LEAP

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Project LEAP examines the development of children's algebraic thinking in grades K-5, and instructional practices that foster that development.

Improving Learning and Instruction

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How we can empower people to become motivated and effectively self-regulated learners? Learners must have the right mindset—they must be motivated and interpret the experience of difficulty in productive ways—but…

Faculty

Laura Lee Colgin

Affiliated Departments:
Neuroscience
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Brain rhythms reflect synchronized activity across many neurons and thus provide a means for studying how groups of neurons coordinate their activity during complex cognitive functions such as learning. My work uses…

Stephanie B Corliss

Affiliated Departments:
Dell Medical School, Medical Education
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Teaching and learning to provide feedback to departments, colleges, and the university Use of instructional practices to enhance the teaching and learning experience

Robert A Duke

Affiliated Departments:
Butler School of Music, Dell Medical School, Jackson School of Geosciences, School of Undergraduate Studies
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The faculty and graduate students in the Center for Music Learning investigate the processes of human skill development, integrating the results of systematic research from multiple disciplines with effective…

Eric Knuth

Affiliated Departments:
College of Education, Curriculum and Instruction
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My program of research concerns the meaningful engagement of students in mathematical practices and their development of increasingly more sophisticated ways of engaging in those practices. My research focuses, in…

Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology, Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Working memory, cognitive control, episodic memory, functional neuroimaging

Marie Helene Monfils

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology, Neuroscience
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Dr. Monfils is currently pursuing 2 research streams: (1) identifying the factors that promote or hinder the social transmission of information between conspecific, and (2) investigating different post-consolidation…

Felicity Muth

Affiliated Departments:
College of Natural Sciences, Integrative Biology, Cockrell School of Engineering
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Felicity Muth is an Assistant Professor Department of Integrative Biology. She is broadly interested in animal behaviour and cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the…

Kimberly Nixon

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Psychology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Integrative Biology, Molecular Biosciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience, College of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Neurology
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The Nixon Lab studies neuropathology associated with alcohol use disorder. We specifically focus on the role of adult neural stem cells (adult neurogenesis) in the damage caused by alcohol, but also are one of the…