When it came to learning language, money mattered for pandemic preschoolers, according to a new study out of U of T Mississauga's Child Language and Speech Studies (CLASS) Lab.
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Oct 4, 2023
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People have fairly consistent preferences when it comes to judging the beauty of things in the real world—it's well known, for example, that humans prefer symmetrical faces. But our feelings about art may be more personal, ...
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Sep 15, 2023
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A new study finds that parents who frequently share photos of their children on social media tend to have more permissive and confident parenting styles and engage their children with social media at younger ages.
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Mar 23, 2022
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The more people know about when and why behavioral interventions are being used and their effectiveness, the more likely they are to accept their use to change their behavior, according to recent research from Queen Mary ...
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May 29, 2020
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Gestures and visual animations can help reveal the cognitive origins of meaning, indicating that our minds can assign a linguistic structure to new informational content "on the fly"—even if it is not linguistic in nature.
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Apr 25, 2019
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A team from the University's Experimental Psychology and Anthropology Departments wanted to see whether our feelings of social closeness when dancing with others might be linked to endorphins – the body's 'feel good' chemicals.
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Oct 28, 2015
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"You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra
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Mar 27, 2015
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(Phys.org) —Research by the University of Liverpool has found that the same brain activity is used for language production and making complex tools, supporting the theory that they evolved at the same time.
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Sep 2, 2013
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A faith in the explanatory and revealing power of science increases in the face of stress or anxiety, a study by Oxford University psychologists suggests.
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Jun 5, 2013
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The phonics screening check introduced by the coalition government last year does identify school children in Year 1 who may be falling behind in learning to read, but is not really more informative than teacher assessments ...
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Jun 5, 2013
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