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Visual Learners Convert Words to Pictures in the Brain And Vice Versa, Says Penn Psychology Study

Visual Learners Convert Words to Pictures in the Brain And Vice Versa, Says Penn Psychology Study

PHILADELPHIA –- A University of Pennsylvania psychology study, using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to scan the brain, reveals that people who consider themselves visual learners, as opposed to verbal learners, have a tendency to convert linguistically presented information into a visual mental representation.

Jordan Reese

Frederick A. Murphy Honored With $100,000 Penn Vet World Leadership Award

Frederick A. Murphy Honored With $100,000 Penn Vet World Leadership Award

PHILADELPHIA –- Frederick A. Murphy has been selected as the 2009 recipient of the Penn Vet World Leadership Award. Murphy is the James W. McLaughlin Professor in Residence, Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Gail Luciani , Jordan Reese

University of Pennsylvania Researchers Find that the Unexpected Is a Key to Human Learning

University of Pennsylvania Researchers Find that the Unexpected Is a Key to Human Learning

PHILADELPHIA – The human brain’s sensitivity to unexpected outcomes plays a fundamental role in the ability to adapt and learn new behaviors, according to a new study by a team of psychologists and neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jordan Reese , Kim Guenther