When Michelle D. Miller leads faculty workshops, she often does what she calls a “party trick” that she uses on the first day of class with her students: learning everyone’s names. As professors have ...

Students listen during a lecture at BYU. Simple practices such as using names, name tents and the BYU app’s flashcards can strengthen connection and learning, according to a recent study. The start of ...

For professors who teach a large number of students, it can be difficult or feel impossible to remember each student by name. However, research shows when a professor knows their student’s name, that ...

For the first week of school, Jonathan Romsdahl, an English teacher at Erwin High School, assigns seats. Elizabeth Wicker, a counselor at Erwin, refers to photos next to students’ names. Ana Esparza, ...

Want to know the number one thing that stops people from learning names? That they emphatically tell you that they’re “awful at remembering names.” Break that habit, and add these other practices, and ...

Some dogs might be smarter than others. Hungarian researchers at Eötvös Loránd University are gathering evidence on this topic with a "Genius Dog Challenge." The nonprofit research project has been ...

Last month, I wrote about the common names of birds, and the planned changes to some of those names. In the past, I’ve written about the folk names of birds. But there are also the scientific names of ...

One measure of intelligence is being able to learn the name of an object after only hearing it a few times, a cognitive ability known as 'fast mapping'. Humans can quickly associate an object's ...