In this short commentary, I will argue that there are several determinants for whether and how prior knowledge affects learning. Put differently, the identical prior knowledge can steer learning ...

In everyday life and in education, we continuously build and structure our knowledge. Successful knowledge construction is suggested to happen through reactivation of previously learned information ...

The Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) has awarded a team of scientists at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) a prestigious grant to determine why having prior knowledge on a topic ...