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ZEYNEP GUNGOR was born in Turkey and studied at a German High School before coming to USA. She is a...

  Study Smart: 10 Ways to Master the SAT/ACT Using the Science of Learning By Nicholas C....

Why we love this the video points out the very important fact that practicing in...

Why we love this – the video highlights the misconception that how much you practice matters more...

Can Handwriting Make You Smarter? Watch this video produced by The Wall Street Journal WE LOVE...

The truth about improving your golf game with Dr. Mark Guadagnoli and Dr. Chris Bertram by...

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...

Legal steroids for training performance. Discover practical training strategies that make a...

  A simple change to practice can make a difference This article was originally published in...

One of the most common ways to practice music hurts long-term learning This article was originally...

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

You remember the old joke. A young, obviously confused out-of-towner stops an old man on a street...

Suppose you want to improve your golf game—say, driving and putting. If you’re like most people,...

The Boot Room (Issue 12) visits Burnley FC’s academy to interview a selection of U10s and U11s...

Rote rehearsal refers to practicing something over and over again, and it’s often the strategy of...

We have all heard people claim to be “visual learners,” “auditory learners,” or some other...

Dr. Fran Pirozzolo provides several examples of how he has designed practice to be more difficult,...

This article was originally published in Psychology Today on Nate Kornell’s blog, Everybody is...

Lee Waddington is the head of Player Development and the Foundation Phase coach at Burnley...

Technology has given us greater possibilities in sports training. Watch this video to hear Dr....

Dr. Fran Pirozzolo discusses the important role of errors, or mistakes, in sports training. He...

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!