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Nate Kornell, Ph.D.

Do your assignments accomplish your goals?

One Question You Need to Ask Yourself About Your...

By Nate Kornell, Ph.D.

Fuel for the Mind

10 Ways to Master the SAT/ACT…

  Study Smart: 10 Ways to Master the SAT/ACT Using the...

By Lasting Learning

Alan Castel, Ph.D.

Money, Memory, and Growing Older: Remember the Good Times?

As we get older, do we want to only remember the good times...

By Alan Castel, Ph.D.

Creating Fond Memories by Mastering Peak-Rule This article was originally published in Psychology...

Think more, Eat Less? Thinking about future meals can make you eat less This article was originally...

ONE OF THE main lessons to be learned from our studies of the home-court/field effect is that an...

Journalist Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein,  took a stab at mental athleticism,...

Retrieval cues are stimuli that help you retrieve a certain memory. Watch this video and learn...

Tim Urban has become one of the Internet’s most popular writers. With wry stick-figure...

In the video above, Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting our...

Carol Dweck, Ph.D., is a world-renowned Stanford University psychologist and one of the world’s...

How do you know what you know and what you don’t know? How can you tell if you have learned...

Thomas Frank is the creator of  College Info Geek. His blog, videos, and podcasts present ways to...

It is not surprising that being bilingual has many practical benefits in an increasingly...

Did you know that babies under the age of 1 year can benefit from being exposed to a second...

 

Our Story

In 2015, Cameron Broumand, an entrepreneur and father of three living in Los Angeles, stumbled upon a media article on the science of learning. After reading the piece, he realized that the valuable research findings in cognitive psychology and the learning sciences were almost entirely unknown to the public and, more surprisingly, to teachers. How could this be?! Broumand decided to find out, so he called Dr. Robert Bjork, a distinguished research professor at UCLA and one of the world’s leading experts in human learning and memory. After an insightful conversation with Dr. Bjork about the disconnect between research and practice, Broumand recognized an opportunity to improve our educational system. Shortly thereafter, he—along with Clement Mok, an award-winning designer and digital pioneer—founded the company, Lasting Learning. The goal of the company? To provide information to the public about how the science of learning can help transform and improve the way people teach and learn. Broumand asked learning scientists, Dr. Nick Soderstrom and Saskia Giebl, M.Sc. (both of whom were in Bjork’s lab at the time), to join the team. They happily agreed and, with the help of Carri O’Neill, have been giving talks, workshops, and webinars around the country ever since. The UCLA-Lasting Learning team has had the privilege to talk with thousands of teachers, coaches, parents, students, and athletes about how they can leverage the science of learning to enhance their educational practices. We look forward to talking with many more!