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In small groups, people follow high-performing leaders

February 22, 2019 Behavior, K-12 Education, Learning Disorders, Psychiatry, psychology, Racial Issues, Relationships, Social Psychology

While the “wisdom of the crowd” shapes the behavior of large groups of people, less is known about small-group dynamics

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The human brain works backwards to retrieve memories

January 15, 2019 Brain Injury, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Disorders and Syndromes, Intelligence, Learning Disorders, Memory, Neuroscience, psychology

When we remember a past event, the human brain reconstructs that experience in reverse order, according to a new study

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Passive exposure alone can enhance the learning of foreign speech sounds

December 18, 2018 Child Development, Educational Psychology, Intelligence, Language Acquisition, Learning Disorders, Literacy, Memory, Perception

Ability to understand and subsequently speak a new language requires the ability to accurately discriminate speech sounds of a given

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Addressing research gaps could help with development of disability-inclusive workplaces

December 11, 2018 Caregiving, Children's Health, chronic illness, Education and Employment, Educational Policy, Educational Psychology, Industrial Relations, Learning Disorders, Workplace Health

Filling key gaps in the research and understanding of the treatment of people with disabilities in the workplace could help

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Autism and zinc deficiency in early development: Mechanistic link found between zinc, autism risk genes and abnormal neuronal connections associated with autism spectrum disorders

November 12, 2018 Autism, Birth Defects, Child Development, Dietary Supplements and Minerals, Disorders and Syndromes, Learning Disorders, Parkinson's Research, Vitamin

The emergence of autism in children has not only been linked to genes encoding synaptic proteins — among others —

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Brain learns to recognize familiar faces regardless of where they are in the visual field

November 10, 2018 Brain Injury, Intelligence, Language Acquisition, Learning Disorders, Perception, psychology, Relationships, Social Psychology

A Dartmouth study finds that recognition of faces varies by where they appear in the visual field and this variability

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Brainwave activity reveals potential biomarker for autism in children

October 29, 2018 Autism, Child Development, Children's Health, Infant's Health, Learning Disorders, Nervous System, Neuroscience, Psychology Research

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that can impair communication ability, socialization, and verbal and motor skills. It

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Enlarged genotype-phenotype correlation for a deletion in neurofibromatosis type 1: Examination of a larger group of patients extends the clinical manifestations first described 11 years ago for this three-base pair deletion

September 18, 2018 Birth Defects, Depression, Epigenetics, genes, Learning Disorders, Mental Health, Personalized Medicine, Stroke

International collaborative research led by Ludwine Messiaen, Ph.D., shows that while a three-base pair, in-frame deletion called p.Met992del in the

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Teenagers have a hard time reading one another’s tones of voice: But when it comes to understanding adult tones of voice — they are right on!

August 29, 2018 Child Psychology, K-12 Education, Learning Disorders, Mental Health, parenting, Perception, psychology, Social Psychology

Your teenage daughter gets into a shouting match with another kid at school. It turns out that it may have

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The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe light

August 24, 2018 Behavioral Science, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Endangered Animals, Learning Disorders, Monkeys, Nature, Perception, psychology

You don’t focus as well as you think you do. That’s the fundamental finding of a team of researchers from

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