From the University at Buffalo press release: Infants raised in homes where they hear a single language, but spoken with different accents, recognize words dramatically differently at about 12 months of age than their age-matched…
From the University of Texas at Dallas press release: The nation’s 31 million children growing up in homes with low socioeconomic status have, on average, significantly smaller vocabularies compared with their peers. A new study…
From the University of Waterloo press release: You are more likely to remember something if you read it out loud, a study from the University of Waterloo has found. A recent Waterloo study found that…
From the Penn State press release: Children growing up in poverty face many challenges, but a preschool program that aims to improve social and emotional skills may help increase their focus and improve learning in…
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU) press release: Learning requires the chemical adaptation of individual synapses. Researchers have now revealed the impact of an RNA-binding protein that is intimately involved in this process on learning and…
From the American Association for the Advancement of Science press release: Infants who observe someone putting more effort into attaining a goal attribute more value to it, a new study finds. Past work has shed…
From the Duke University press release: The meaning behind infants’ screeches, squeals and wails may frustrate and confound sleep-deprived new parents. But at an age when babies cannot yet speak to us in words, they…
From the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute press release: While simulation platforms have been used to train surgeons before they enter an actual operating room (OR), few studies have evaluated how well trainees transfer those skills from…
From the Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center press release: A new study by researchers at Loma Linda University Health has found that eating nuts on a regular basis strengthens brainwave frequencies associated with…
From the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute press release: A comprehensive review of research on several measures of the quality of early childhood education suggests that the instructional practices of preschool teachers have the…