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From:International Journal of Bilingualism (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article looks at the general effects of bilingualism on cognitive development and highlights the specific effects of bilingualism on third language acquisition. First, it examines the effects of...
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From:Merrill-Palmer Quarterly (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCognitive development was evaluated in children who had spent at least 8 months in a Romanian orphanage (RO) and two comparison groups of children: a Canadian-Born, nonadopted, never institutionalized comparison group...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 99, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Cognitive development in very low birth weight (VLBW, [is less than or equal to] 1500 g) infants typically has been reported based on mean endpoints in cross-sectional studies. These overall group means mask...
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From:Coactivity (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe centre of Childhood Research is formed by the hypothesis that children co-interpret the world and participate actively in its constituting. In consequence, Childhood Research concentrates on the perspectives of...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe present study investigated the effect of bilingualism on the two widely used developmental neuropsychological test batteries Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children -- Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) and A Developmental...
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From:Journal of Postgraduate Medical Institute (Vol. 31, Issue 4)Byline: Fauzia Naz and Mamoona Mushtaq ABSTRACT Objectives: The present study focused on assessing cognitive deficits and emotional deregulation as predictors of depression in pre/post patients of general surgery....
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From:Early Human Development (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This study examined the association between sleep--wake patterns and achievements on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, in a low-risk sample of 10-month-olds. The steep of 50 infants was recorded at home...
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From:Information Outlook (Vol. 19, Issue 6)Managers have long complained they spend too much time making sure work gets done and not enough time thinking strategically and innovating, but a new study casts doubt on whether they're willing to let go of the...
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From:Reading Research Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTheoretical perspectives on spelling characterize development as a progression through qualitatively different phases or as a process of more or less continuous growth. This study investigated the potential utility of a...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 124, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Arsenic (As) exposure from drinking water is associated with modest intellectual deficits in childhood. It is not known whether reducing exposure is associated with improved intelligence. OBJECTIVE: We...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSeveral studies conducted in Britain recently suggest that the human brain continues to develop throughout adolescence, contrary to the once widely-held assumption that brain development stopped before puberty. Brain...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Xu Wang 1, Renfu Luo 2,*, Chengfang Liu 2, Linxiu Zhang 3, Ai Yue 4, Alexis Medina 5, Scott Rozelle 5 Introduction Malnutrition kills or disables millions of children every year, and prevents millions...
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From:College Student Journal (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe study tried to examine the interaction between two independent variables of selective attention and cognitive development on Achievement in Genetics at the Secondary School level. In looking at the problem of this...
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From:The Neuroscientist (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: Satoshi Tsujimoto (Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, tsujimotos@mail.nih.gov) Keywords: Children; Cognitive development; Working memory;...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 19, Issue 49) Peer-ReviewedSchools exposed to high levels of aircraft noise are not healthy educational environments, researchers have concluded. A multinational team studied 2,844 children aged nine to ten in schools around airports in the...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 328, Issue 7439) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Objective To examine the association between cognitive ability in childhood and mid-life cognitive decline in the normal population. Design Longitudinal, population based, birth cohort study....
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From:Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (Vol. 48, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedReduced cognitive empathy may put autistic people at risk for bullying. We compared interpretations of bullying provided by 22 autistic and 15 non-autistic college students. Autistic (and non-autistic) students reported...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 92, Issue 362) Peer-ReviewedBilateral symmetry in handaxes has significant implications for hominin cognitive and socio-behavioural evolution. Here the authors show that high levels of symmetry occur in the British Late Middle Pleistocene...
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From:The Neuroscientist (Vol. 13, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCortical plasticity refers to flexible and long-lasting changes in neuronal circuitry and information processing, which is caused by learning and experience. Although cortical plasticity can be observed in every cortex...
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From:Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation, Therapy & Technology (Vol. 4) Peer-ReviewedAn implicit approach to motor learning suggests that relatively complex movement skills may be better acquired in environments that constrain errors during the initial stages of practice. This current concept paper...