Does active learning yield better outcomes because of the learning value of the exercises, or because students simply “wake up” and become energized by an activity? To explore this, we compared undergraduate engineering/science students’ information recall in three lecture contexts. A pre-recorded lecture was punctuated with a) active learning exercises, b) sessions of light physical activity, ...

background: the comprehension processes are often inferred or explored indirectly through the assessment of the performance of the students on certain tasks. comprehension is typically measured by the techniques in which the test-taker reads a short text and then selects the correct answers in multiple choice questions, true/false and yes/no tasks or matching activities. purpose: a new approach...

Brain activity immediately before an event can predict whether the event will later be remembered. This indicates that memory formation is influenced by anticipatory mechanisms engaged ahead of stimulus presentation. Here, we asked whether anticipatory processes affect the learning of short word lists, and whether such activity varies as a function of serial position. Participants memorized lis...

Recall of a studied item and retrieval of its encoding context (source memory) both depend on recollection of qualitative information about the study episode. This study investigated whether recall and source memory engage overlapping neural regions. Participants (n = 18) studied a series of words, which were presented either to the left or right of fixation. fMRI data were collected during a s...

BACKGROUND To examine the benefits of physical activity (PA) on diseases with a long developmental period, it is important to determine reliability of long-term PA recall. METHODS We investigated 15-year reproducibility of PA recall. Participants were 3605 White and African-American adults in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study, aged 33-45 at the time of recall assessme...

introduction: alzheimer’s disease (ad) is a enfeeble neurodegenerative disorder characterized by increased β-amyloid (aβ) deposition and neuronal dysfunction leading to impaired learning and recall. among proposed risk factors, impaired cholinergic transmission is a main cause for incidence of disease. methods: in the present study, effects of the intracerebroventricularly administration of an ...

We used positron emission tomography to examine learning and retention of timed motor sequences. Subjects were scanned during learning (LRN) and baseline (ISO) on 3 d: day 1, after 5 d of practice (day 5) and after a 4 week delay (recall). Blood flow was compared across days of learning and between the LRN and ISO conditions. Overall, significant changes in activity were seen across days for th...