From the Lund University press release: Six-month old infants recognize when adults imitate them, and perceive imitators as more friendly, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The babies looked and smiled…
From the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University press release: A woman walking down the street hears a bang. Several moments later she discovers her boyfriend, who had been walking ahead of her, has been shot.…
From the York University press release: There’s a common belief that musicians are born with a natural ability to play music, while most of us have to work twice as hard to hear the difference…
From the Penn State press release: Individuals who fear talking in front of a crowd could soon have a new tool to ease public speaking anxiety: their smart speaker. A team of researchers at Penn…
From the Baylor College of Medicine press release: Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reveal that astrocytes, the most abundant cells in the brain, play a direct role in the regulation of neuronal circuits involved…
From the Frontiers press release: Children have an insatiable appetite to understand why things are the way they are, leading to their apt description as “little scientists.” While researchers have been aware of children’s interest…
From the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz press release: The Internet and social media are among the most frequently used sources of information today. Students, too, often prefer online information rather than traditional teaching materials provided…
From the Baylor University press release: College students who listened to classical music by Beethoven and Chopin during a computer-interactive lecture on microeconomics — and heard the music played again that night — did better…
From the Washington State University press release: When teachers use a funny joke, a cat video or even background music in their lessons, it can keep students from understanding the main content. These so-called “seductive…
From the CNRS press release: Even before uttering their first words, babies master the grammar basics of their mother tongue. Thus eight-month-old French infants can distinguish function words, or functors — e.g. articles (the), personal…