Learning

There are now countless online apps and software programs that encourage people to exercise their brain to boost cognitive function, but does ‘brain training’ really work?

It used to be thought that the adult brain was hardwired: what we had by a certain age was as good as it got. But QBI’s Professor Perry Bartlett turned that thinking on its head.

She is one of Australia’s most prolific and highly awarded children’s authors and yet Jackie French lives with dyslexia.

Dr Chris Sarra is an educator who has dedicated his career to shifting expectations around children in schools across Australia.

Professor Jason Mattingley discusses learning and memory in the brain.

Neuroimmunologist Dr Jana Vukovic on her career