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How the Brain Detects the Rhythms of Speech
Sport and Memory Go Hand in Hand
By exploring the benefits of sport in memory and motor learning, scientists are opening up promising perspectives for school programs.
Why Writing By Hand Makes Kids Smarter
Busy Pictures Hinder Reading Ability in Children
New study shows extraneous images draw attention from text, reducing comprehension in beginning readers.
Children Use Both Brain Hemispheres to Understand Language, Unlike Adults
Whereas adults process most discrete neural tasks in specific areas in one or the other of their brain's two hemispheres, young children use both the right and left hemispheres to do the same task. The finding suggests a possible reason why children appear to recover from neural injury much easier than adults.
Children Will Wait to Impress Others—Another Twist on the Classic Marshmallow Test
Early Reading in Spanish Helps Children Learn to Read English
Children who had strong early reading skills in their native Spanish language when they entered kindergarten experienced greater growth in their ability to read English from kindergarten through fourth grade.
Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder Is More Common Than Thought
Playfulness Can Be Trained - Here's Why You Should Do It
Naming Guides How 12-Month-Old Infants Encode and Remember Objects
Even for infants just beginning to speak their first words, the way an object is named guides infants' encoding, representation and memory for that object, according to new research. Encoding objects in memory and recalling them later is fundamental to human cognition and emerges in infancy. Evidence from a new recognition memory task reveals that as they encode objects, infants are sensitive to a principled link between naming and object representation by 12 months.