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Researchers Find Language Helps People Solve Spatial Problems
(PhysOrg.com) -- By testing people who use an emerging sign language in Nicaragua, Wellesley College Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennie Pyers and her colleagues found that people who have more complex language skills ...
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Jun 21, 2010 |
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Juggling languages can build better brains
Once likened to a confusing tower of Babel, speaking more than one language can actually bolster brain function by serving as a mental gymnasium, according to researchers.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 18, 2011 |
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How chimps deal with death: Studies offer rare glimpses
Two studies in the April 27th issue of Current Biology offer rare glimpses into the ways that chimpanzees deal with the deaths of those closest to them. In one case, researchers describe the fi ...
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Language Helps People Solve Spatial Problems: Study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Language appears to be key in helping humans figure out the physical world. By testing people who use an emerging sign language in Nicaragua, Wellesley College Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennie Pyers ...
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Jun 27, 2010 |
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Research finds that chatspeak has no impact on children's spelling ability
(PhysOrg.com) -- Parents, get ready to say OMG and watch your teens roflol.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Reading to kids a crucial tool in English language development
Poring over the works of Dr. Seuss, the adventures of the Bernstain Bears or exploring the worlds of Hans Christian Andersen with a child has always been a great parent-child bonding exercise.
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Feb 16, 2010 |
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Language skills in your twenties may predict risk of dementia decades later
People who have superior language skills early in life may be less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease decades later, despite having the hallmark signs of the disease, according to research published in the July 9, 2009, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Language as a window into sociability
People with Williams syndrome-known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers-process spoken language differently from people with autism spectrum disorders-characterized by social withdrawal ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 16, 2010 |
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Brain Waves Aid Study of Language Impairment
(PhysOrg.com) -- By looking at how the brain responds to different aspects of grammar, specifically nouns and verbs, researchers at the UT Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders are hoping to provide a better understanding ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2010 |
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Language dysfunction in children may be due to epileptic brain activity
Epileptic activity in the brain can affect language development in children, and EEG registrations should therefore be carried out more frequently on children with severe language impairment to identify more readily those ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 19, 2010 |
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Educate yourself to boost achievement in kids
With school days just around the corner, a University of Michigan researcher has some advice for parents who want to increase their children's academic success.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Early intervention for toddlers with autism highly effective, study finds
A novel early intervention program for very young children with autism - some as young as 18 months - is effective for improving IQ, language ability, and social interaction, a comprehensive new study has found.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Preschoolers' language development is partly tied to their classmates' language skills
Young children learn how to speak and understand language from the words parents speak at home and teachers speak in preschool. A new longitudinal study has found that their preschool classmates also play a part.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 15, 2009 |
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