Learning how to learn is the most important skill to acquire.

Five years in the making: our meta-analysis of 10 fMRI datasets across Asia, Europe & N America (N=2,433). We find creative ability emerges from dynamic switching between default and executive brain networks, with optimal creativity at a "sweet spot." nature.com/articles/s4200…

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel nature.com/articles/d4158…

Have you purchased your tickets to researchED Toronto 2025? Did you know Jamie Metsala 🇨🇦 is doing the keynote and we also have Zach Groshell Anna Stokke @johnmighton @NumCog and many more joining us!!! Book your spot today. eventbrite.ca/e/researched-c…

NSF Freezes Grant Review in Response to Executive Orders npr.org/sections/shots…

Retrieval practice, interleaving, pretesting, and spaced learning are very effective strategies but not used enough in classrooms because teachers are "generally not taught much about effective learning strategies." psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-…

Why is forgetting such an important part of learning? Robert Bjork explains something that every teacher should know.

Anne Cleary Anne, here is a slide I use in almost every training sessions I do with teachers :)

Cleary, A. M., McNeely-White, K. L., Neisser, J., Drane, D. L., Liégeois-Chauvel, C., & Pedersen, N. P. (2025). Does familiarity-detection flip attention inward? The familiarity-flip-of-attention account of the primacy effect in memory for repetitions. doi.org/10.3758/s13421…

Our Colorado delegation for American Psychological Association Hill Day today visited the offices of Joe Neguse Senator John Hickenlooper Michael Bennet Rep. Jason Crow Rep. Diana DeGette Lauren Boebert #APAadvocacy & are grateful for their work in #MentalHealth & NIH funding.

Thank you to everyone who met with us at the Capitol today!

Excited about this forthcoming book with Bennett Schwartz! Cambridge University Press

Enhancing creativity through neurofeedback: Check out our recent paper where we use covert neurofeedback to entrain default-executive coupling during creative thinking! Xinbing (Jack) Zhang, Jack White, Michael Lührs, Michal Ramot, & Roger Beaty academic.oup.com/cercor/article…

NSF will award ~1,000 instead of their usual ~2,000 Graduate Research Fellowships this year. NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half nature.com/articles/d4158…

Simone trained people to increase default mode and executive brain network coupling using neurofeedback, which boosted creative thinking—showing a double dissociation. A big technical undertaking and his first-first author brain paper 👏

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How does the DMN contribute to creativity? Our new review with Roger Beaty and Emmanuelle Volle explores 4 novel trends in research: (1) causal links to creative abilities, (2) associative thinking, (3) idea evaluation, and (4) diverse functional integration.

Unit 0: Learning How to Learn is done! I’m sharing the booklet with a few disclaimers. The booklet includes the following sections: ✔️Part 1: Memory ✔️Part 2: Retrieval Practice ✔️Part 3: Learning Myths ✔️Part 4: Metacognition ✔️Part 5: How Our Brains Learn ✔️Exam Revision Guide

Check out my interview on tip-of-the-tongue states with Mike Carruthers on Something You Should Know!