Baby Talk: Parents Do Make A Difference, By Promoting Childhood Chatter, From Birth To Age 3
...ng Mozart to your unborn fetus or flashing foreign words at yournewborn: "All you need to do," Hirsh-Pasek ... and dad? She suggests charting the timing ofthese words to learn whether Junior is naming his parents, or simplyexperimenting with arbitrary sounds. From 9 ...Nonintrusive Imaging Technique Useful For Identifying Language Regions In Kids' Brains
...ters. All the subjects were imaged as they spelled words such as"cat" and "dog." The words were picked to suit their language skills by RoyalGrueneich, Ph.D., assistant clinical professor of ...NICHD-Funded Researchers Show Estrogen Effects On Brain After Menopause
...e words. The women were then asked toidentify the words they had seen previously. To test their non-verbal memory, the women were shown abstract symbols,using similar testing. The women were shown 3 characters from the Tamilalphabet, then a blank screen for 20 seconds, then asked to distinguis...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Nursing Administrator Receives Nursing Excellence Award
...ommunity. A role model and mentor, she passesalong words of wisdom that helped shaped her life. "I tell young women -- andmen -- what I was told when I was 5 years old and learning to swim at the YWCApool: 'Find something you really like to do, and keep at it.' I made my commitment to nursing, and I've nev...The Whole Truth From Five-Year-Olds
...tification task than on tasks thatinvolve defining words or explaining thedifference between concepts, but we were reallysurprised by how much better they did," saysSaywitz, an associate professor of psychiatry atUCLA. Lyon and Saywitz credit their unique backgroundsfor their strides in competency testing....Famous Faces Activate More Parts Of The Brain
... and namable objects such asfrogs and ladders. The words activated a region in the left frontal lobe,whereas the unfamiliar faces activated a corresponding region on the right sideof the brain. Namable objects activated both the right and left regions. The researchers wanted to see whether these ac...Brain Regions Identified That Influence What We Remember Or Forget
...s also showed greateractivity when people analyzed words on the basis of their meaning rather thantheir appearance, such as whether the letters were in upper or lower case. Thissuggests that part of the brain is encoding for meaning at the time of theexperience. The research might lead someday to better tr...Study Captures Images Of Memories Being Formed Within The Human Brain
... them to thinksemantically, to distinguish between words that are concrete, such as dog orcat, and words that are abstract, such as love or hate. Subjects were laterasked to recall whether specific words h...Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
...equently tested for abilities to read, distinguish words with background noise, distinguish sounds with background noise and distinguish word sounds (phonemes) under quiet conditions. The tests, with the exception of the initial auditory test, were conducted by Elissa Tolle and Pegauy Santil, 1996 Cornell...Alzheimer's disease center seeks patients for new drug studies
...loss, confusion, difficulty in finding the correct words for articulate conversation, difficulty recalling names and repetition of previous conversation. Researchers at UT Southwestern are hoping to enroll about 15 patients and have set a maximum of 24 patients for the study. The 48-week trial is open to ...Testosterone May Affect Learning Skills; May Be Put In Tablet Form
...and verbal memory -- making up sentences, defining words and recalling words from a test. Researchers at Hopkins and elsewhere are studying whether testosterone-replacement ther...