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TV viewing before the age of 2 has no cognitive benefit, study finds
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Mar 02, 2009 |
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A longitudinal study of infants from birth to age 3 showed TV viewing before the age of 2 does not improve a child's language and visual motor skills, according to research conducted at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard ...
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Children's early gesture have important link to school preparedness (Video)
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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Children who convey more meanings with gestures at age 14 months have much larger vocabularies at 54 months than children who convey fewer meanings and are accordingly better prepared for school, according ...
How words shape the world
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Our minds might be able to find the right word quicker than Google and yet we rarely pause to think about how language shapes everything we do.
Use it or lose it? Study suggests the brain can remember a 'forgotten' language
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Sep 24, 2009 |
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Many of us learn a foreign language when we are young, but in some cases, exposure to that language is brief and we never get to hear or practice it subsequently. Our subjective impression is often that the neglected language ...
Study finds that children can learn a second language in preschool
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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Interim results from an international research project which looks at bilingual education reveal that children can learn a second language as early as preschool.
Rutgers-Camden developing enzyme function database
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Since the advent of the Human Genome Project an explosion of data has sent the science world scrambling. There is a growing demand to fine-tune genomic codes, which list the "ingredients for life," but do not adequately explain ...
A balanced memory network
Sep 07, 2007 |
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Ever wonder how much information we put in our heads? The answer: a lot. For starters, a typical vocabulary is 50,000-250,000 words. And then there are all the little details that stretch back decades – the house we grew ...
Decoding the dictionary: Study suggests lexicon evolved to fit in the brain
Apr 30, 2008 |
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The latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary boasts 22,000 pages of definitions. While that may seem far from succinct, new research suggests the reference manual is meticulously organized to be as concise as possible ...
Supplementing babies' formula with DHA boosts cognitive development
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Research has shown that children who were breast fed as infants have superior cognitive skills compared to those fed infant formula, and it's thought that this is due to an essential fatty acid in breast milk called docosahexaenoic ...
Using everyday language to explain scientific concepts could help students learn, study finds
Aug 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To talk about photosynthesis, you need to know a little Latin, a bit of French, some Greek, a word coined by a pair of French chemists in the 19th century, and a word of ancient origin that has been adopted ...
Research indicates toddlers can become ageists by three
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Aug 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest of places. For Sheree Kwong See, it happened during a testing session with a subject while conducting a study on language and cognitive changes ...
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