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Neuroscience: The Extraordinary Ease of Ordinal Series

December 20, 2012

21 December 2012, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Familiar categories whose members appear in orderly sequences are processed differently than others in the brain, according to new research published by David Eagleman in the open access journal Frontiers in Neuroscience on December 20th, 2012. The study suggests…...

December 20, 2012

21 December 2012, Language, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Toddlers with more developed language skills are better able to manage frustration and less likely to express anger by the time they’re in preschool. That’s the conclusion of a new longitudinal study from researchers at the Pennsylvania State University…...

December 19, 2012

21 December 2012, Article, Newsletter, Phonetics, SLP

Editor’s Note: Please enjoy this wonderful and refreshing post by Lisa Geary of Live Speak Love as she shares some of her favorite projects that her phonetics students completed during her first semester as Clinical Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders…...

December 18, 2012

21 December 2012, Hearing Loss, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] Current special education laws are geared towards integrating special-needs children into the general classroom environment from a young age, starting as early as preschool. Prof. Tova Most of Tel Aviv University’s Jaime and Joan Constantiner School of Education and…...

December 17, 2012

21 December 2012, Language, News, SLP

[Source: Science Daily.com and JOVE.com] Parents often wonder how much of the world their young children really understand. Though typically developing children are not able to speak or point to objects on command until they are between eighteen months and two years…...

December 17, 2012

21 December 2012, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] As social creatures, humans must constantly monitor each other’s intentions, beliefs, desires, and other mental states. A particularly important social skill is the ability to take another person’s perspective and understand what the person knows, even when that knowledge…...

Key Gene for Brain Development

December 13, 2012

14 December 2012, News, Newsletter

[Source: Science Daily] About one in ten thousand babies is born with an abnormally small head. The cause for this disorder — which is known as microcephaly — is a defect in the development of the embryonic brain. Children with microcephaly are…...

December 13, 2012

14 December 2012, Autism, Fragile X, News

[Source: Science Daily] Doctors have known for many years that patients with fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited intellectual disability, are often also diagnosed with autism. But little has been known about how the two diagnoses are related. Now…...

December 13, 2012

News, Newsletter, 14 December 2012

[Source: Science Daily] Beat induction, the ability to pick up regularity — the beat — from a varying rhythm, is not an ability that rhesus monkeys possess. These are the findings of researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the National…...

December 12, 2012

14 December 2012, News, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Science Daily] Children suffering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of traumatic events, including child abuse, may benefit from psychological therapies, according to a review published in The Cochrane Library. In the first systematic review of PTSD in young people,…...