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Direct linkSparks, Sarah D. – Education Week, 2011
A new neuroscience twist on a classic psychology study offers some clues to what makes one student able to buckle down for hours of homework before a test while his classmates party. The study published in the September 2011 edition of "Proceedings of the National Academy of Science," suggests environmental cues may "hijack" the brain's mechanisms…
Descriptors: Cues, Delay of Gratification, Brain, Teaching Methods
