Month: September 2020

Personal interactions are important drivers of STEM identity in girls

Researchers found that nuanced interactions between teachers and campers at a coding camp for middle school girls as well as among the girls themselves impacted how girls viewed themselves as coders. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, […]

Published on September 22, 2020

Cities beat suburbs at inspiring cutting-edge innovations

The disruptive inventions that make people go ‘Wow!’ tend to come from research in the heart of cities and not in the suburbs, a new study suggests. Researchers found that, within metro areas, the majority of patents come from innovations created in suburbs. But the unconventional, disruptive innovations — the ones that combine research from […]

Published on September 22, 2020

Language Experience in Cognitive Maps and Image Spaces

In our original paper [1], we presented cognitive maps and image spaces as low-dimensional internal models that rely on brain structures and computations involved in spatial mapping, and that are useful for organizing conceptual knowledge, guiding goal-directed cognition, and supporting analogical processing. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is […]

Published on September 22, 2020