Dr. Carlos Calderon’s current grant-supported project, “Assessing the temporal reliability of cognitive-achievement relations and factor structure of the Woodcock-Johnson (WJ) Tests of Cognitive Abilities and Academic Achievement, Fourth Edition” is a series of research studies funded by the Woodcock Institute for the Advancement of Neurocognitive Research and Applied Practice. His grant started in March 2020 and will last until March 2022. The first study under this grant is the basis… Read more
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Decoding the brain’s learning machine
In studies with monkeys, researchers report that they have uncovered significant new details about how the cerebellum — the ‘learning machine’ of the mammalian brain — makes predictions and learns from its mistakes, helping us execute complex motor actions such as accurately shooting a basketball into a net or focusing your eyes on an object across the room.
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Source: ScienceDaily