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Alcohol Impairs Mental Performance More In The Young, Say Researchers
March 17, 1998 — A growing body of evidence on alcohol's effects shows that just one drink can impair learning and memory in both young animals and young humans, but has no memory effect on adults, according to ... > full story -
Educational Psychology
Child Development
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Language Acquisition
Intelligence
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An Owl's Early Lessons Leave Their Mark On The Brain
March 6, 1998 — Lessons learned early in life can, at least in owls, leave a permanent mark in the brain. The mark allows an adult owl to re-learn a task that it learned early in life, though the same task can never ... > full story -
New Understanding About Process Of Learning And Memory
February 27, 1998 — The discovery of a protein's role in the process of memory and learning could lead to the development of new treatments for people with Alzheimer's disease and learning ... > full story -
Intelligence
Educational Psychology
Behavior
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Children's Health
Child Development
Uterine Environment Boosts Learning Ability in Mouse Offspring
February 27, 1998 — A study conducted at The Jackson Laboratory and the University of Connecticut suggests that the maternal uterine environment in mice can have an enhancing effect on learning ability in offspring ... > full story -
Most Comprehensive Study Of Its Kind Shows Common Asthma Medications Don't Cause Behavioral Problems In Children
February 26, 1998 — The asthma medications beclomethasone and theophylline have reported side effects, such memory, mood and behavior changes, but an article in the March issue of the journal Pediatrics shows that in ... > full story -
Language Acquisition
Child Development
Child Psychology
Educational Psychology
Social Psychology
ADD and ADHD
Born To Speak: Cornell Studies Provide Evidence Of Babies' Innate Capability To Learn Language
February 17, 1998 — Kids understand the smartest things even before they can say the words, according to a Cornell University psycholinguist. Her studies of American and Chinese children provide new compelling ... > full story -
Block That (Pavlovian) Kick -- Brain Signal Identified As Key Functional Element In Conditioned Reflex Stop-Learning Mechanism
January 27, 1998 — Pavlov trained his famous dogs to associate food with the ringing of a bell, so that they came to salivate when they heard one whether or not food was present. In 1968, learning researcher L. J. ... > full story -
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Children's Health
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Attention Deficit Disorder
Thyroid Hormone Disruption: Dioxins Linked To Attention Deficit, Learning Problems
January 13, 1998 — Research has shown that children exposed to dioxin and PCBs prenatally or during infancy can suffer behavioral and learning problems. A University of Maryland researcher suggests that the underlying ... > full story -
New Experiments Show Genes Play Significant Role In Fear
October 29, 1997 — A group of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Colorado at Boulder have found new evidence that genes play a key role in individual differences regarding fear-related ... > full story -
Pretending Not Just Child's Play: Parents Can Have Important Role, Too
October 5, 1997 — Years of research on early childhood have been dominated by thinking that children's pretending needs little help from adults. University of Illinois researchers have found that when parents join ... > full story -
New Advance May Aid Alzheimer's: Early Study Shows Protein Shares Link With Disease And Reverses Memory Deficits In Mice
October 3, 1997 — For the first time, scientists have shown through genetic studies in adult mice that depletion of the protein nerve growth factor (NGF) causes a decline in learning and memory, mimicking a major ... > full story -
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Child Development
Child Psychology
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Educational Psychology
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Infants Have Keen Memory For Learning Words
September 19, 1997 — Experimental psychologists have discovered that babies as young as 8 months are good at learning and remembering ... > full story
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