Tuning into brainwave rhythms speeds up learning in adults
31 January 2023The first study to show that delivering information at the natural tempo of our neural pulses accelerates our ability to learn.
The power of touch
17 June 2021As a major Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition explores human touch through 4,000 years of art, Cambridge researchers explain why this sense is so important in their own work.
Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy
17 December 2019Mothers’ and babies’ brains can work together as a ‘mega-network’ by synchronising brain waves when they interact. The level of connectivity of the brain waves varies according to the mum’s emotional state: when mothers express more positive emotions their brain becomes much more strongly connected with their baby’s brain. This may help the baby to learn and its brain to develop.
Eye contact with your baby helps synchronise your brainwaves
29 November 2017Making eye contact with an infant makes adults’ and babies’ brainwaves ‘get in sync’ with each other – which is likely to support communication and learning – according to researchers at the University of Cambridge.
