This site is primarily focused on reporting on cognitive and brain research, providing the evidence-based foundations for the articles on Mempowered, and my books.

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Have benefits of a growth mindset been overstated?
  • A review of growth mind-set research has found the correlation between growth mind-set and academic achievement was very weak, and may be restricted to some groups of students.

In the education world, fixed mind-set is usually contrasted with growth mind-set. In this context, fixed mind-set refers to students holding the idea that their cognitive abilities, including their intelligence, are set at birth, and they just have to accept their limitations. With a growth...

photo of Fiona McPhersonDr Fiona McPherson has written several books on memory & learning, including:

Easy Russian Alphabet: A Visual Workbook  NEW!

Indo-European Cognate Dictionary

Mnemonics for Study: Spanish edition

Mnemonics for Study: Italian edition

Mnemonics for Study (2nd ed.)

My Memory Journal

Perfect Memory Training

Planning to Remember

Effective Notetaking (3rd ed.) UPDATED

How to Learn

Successful Learning Simplified

How to Approach Learning: What teachers and students should know about succeeding in school  FREE!

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Explaining and preventing post-surgery memory loss
70-year-olds smarter than they used to be
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More smoke, fewer neurons
When estrogen helps memory, and when it doesn’t
Insulin sensitivity may explain link between obesity, memory problems
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Mental activity may slow cognitive decline initially, but speed up dementia later
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An early marker of autism
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Child's 'mental number line' affects memory for numbers
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