Cognitive Science
Indiana University neuroscientist Karin Harman James is involved at both a state and national level this week in raising awareness about the role of handwriting in the learning process. Interest in her research in this area has gained attention as states and schools nationwide debate whether handwriting instruction, particularly cursive, still fits within the curriculum.
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Home-field advantage is real, says Ben Motz, who uses sports statistics to jazz up his research methodology courses at Indiana University. Analysis of National Football League stats between 1981 and 1996 show that the home team won 57 percent of the matches.
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $172,000 to two Indiana University Bloomington faculty members through its Sawyer Seminars grant program. The award supports a seminar titled "Food Choice, Freedom, and Politics," to be convened by Richard Wilk and Peter Todd.
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Dozens of Indiana University researchers from various departments and campuses participated in the American Educational Research Association conference in New Orleans. This news release discusses just a sampling of the studies, addressing questions about college access, learning transfer, high school students' social engagement, environmental education and the international excellence gap.
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Indiana University's robotics experts will recognize the nation's second annual National Robotics Week this Wednesday (April 13) with a public open house at IU Bloomington's official robot research center, R-House, that will include a showcase of robot perception, action and interaction.
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Can't help molding some snow into a ball and hurling it, or tossing a stone as far into a lake as you can? New research from Indiana University and the University of Wyoming shows how humans, unlike any other species on Earth, readily learn to throw long distances. This research also suggests that this unique evolutionary trait is entangled with language development in a way critical to our very existence.
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