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Language Mixing in Children Growing Up Bilingual
January 16, 2013 — Language mixing -- using elements from two languages in the same sentence -- is frequent among bilingual parents and could pose a challenge for vocabulary acquisition by one- and two-year-old ... > full story -
Research Reveals Exactly How the Human Brain Adapts to Injury
January 16, 2013 — For the first time, scientists have used a new combination of neural imaging methods to discover exactly how the human brain adapts to injury. The research shows that when one brain area loses ... > full story -
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New Technique Helps Stroke Victims Communicate
January 15, 2013 — Researchers have developed a speech technique to aid stroke victims with ... > full story -
Never Forget a Face(book): Memory for Online Posts Beats Faces and Books
January 15, 2013 — People’s memory for Facebook posts is strikingly stronger than their memory for human faces or sentences from books, according to a new ... > full story -
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Quality of Instruction Trumps Language in Reading Programs
January 15, 2013 — New research synthesizes studies of English reading outcomes for Spanish-dominant English language learners (ELLs) in elementary ... > full story -
Eliminating Useless Information Important to Learning, Making New Memories
January 9, 2013 — As we age, it just may be the ability to filter and eliminate old information -- rather than take in the new stuff -- that makes it harder to learn, scientists ... > full story -
Cognitive Benefit of Lifelong Bilingualism
January 8, 2013 — Older bilinguals expend less energy when performing a cognitive flexibility task. The findings suggest the value of regular stimulating mental activity across the lifetime. As people age, cognitive ... > full story -
Intensive Training for Aphasia: Even Older Patients Can Improve
January 8, 2013 — Older adults who have suffered from aphasia for a long time can nevertheless improve their language function and maintain these improvements in the long term, according to a new ... > full story -
Pronunciation of 'S' Sounds Impacts Perception of Gender, Researcher Finds
January 4, 2013 — A person's style of speech -- not just the pitch of his or her voice -- may help determine whether the listener perceives the speaker to be male or female, according to a researcher who studied ... > full story -
Your Brain on Big Bird: Sesame Street Helps to Reveal Patterns of Neural Development
January 3, 2013 — Using brain scans of children and adults watching Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children’s brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math. The ... > full story
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