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Child Development News
June 30, 2023

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Reading for Pleasure Early in Childhood Linked to Better Cognitive Performance and Mental Wellbeing in Adolescence

Children who begin reading for pleasure early in life tend to perform better at cognitive tests and have better mental health when they enter adolescence, a study of more than 10,000 young adolescents in the US has ...

Babies Talk More Around Human-Made Objects Than Natural Ones

A new study suggests young children are more vocal when interacting with toys and household items, highlighting their importance for developing language ...

Poverty Negatively Impacts Structural Wiring in Children's Brains, Study Indicates

A study reveals that household and community poverty may influence brain health in children. Childhood obesity and lower cognitive function may explain, at least partially, poverty's influence on the ...

Scientists Discover Spiral-Shaped Signals That Organize Brain Activity

Scientists have discovered human brain signals traveling across the outer layer of neural tissue that naturally arrange themselves to resemble swirling ...
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Getting Adults on Board With Messy Nature Play

Climbing trees, making mud pies, or simply playing outside, parents and educators know that being in nature is an important part of every childhood. But when it comes to messy or risky play, ...

Words Matter: How Researchers Can Avoid Stigmatizing Language

New research offers insights into how researchers can use their platforms to help end the use of stigmatizing ...

60 Years Later, High School Quality May Have a Long-Term Impact on Cognition

Attending a high school with a high number of teachers with graduate training was the clearest predictor of the impact of school quality on late-life cognition, researchers ...

Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People's Minds

A new AI-based system called a semantic decoder can translate a person's brain activity -- while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story -- into a continuous stream of text. ...

Mental Imagery a Helpful Way to Distract Teens from Negative Thought Patterns

For adolescents who may get stuck in negative thought spirals, refocusing on mental imagery is a more effective distraction than verbal ...

Speaking a Tonal Language Could Boost Your Melodic Ability, but at the Cost of Rhythm

Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that ...

Poor Air Quality Linked to Cognitive Problems in Babies

New research shows that poor air quality could be causing cognitive problems in babies and toddlers. A new study reveals an association between poor air quality in India and impaired cognition in ...

Study Finds Early RSV Infection Linked to Significantly Increased Risk of Asthma in Children

A new observational study has found that RSV infection in the first year of life is associated with a significantly increased risk of asthma in children. The study looks at the effects of RSV ...

Problems With 'Pruning' Brain Connections Linked to Adolescent Mental Health Disorders

Problems with the brain's ability to 'prune' itself of unnecessary connections may underlie a wide range of mental health disorders that begin during adolescence, according to research ...

Impact of Maternal Stress During Pregnancy on Child's Health

New research examines the impact that maternal stress during pregnancy has on the neuro-development of ...

Drinking Alcohol While Breastfeeding Impacts Health of Newborns

What are the consequences of mothers consuming alcohol while breastfeeding? A research team at the University of California, Riverside, performed a mouse study to find ...

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Grambank Shows the Diversity of the World's Languages

What shapes the structure of languages? In a new study, an international team of researchers reports that grammatical structure is highly flexible across languages, shaped by common ancestry, ...

Research Shows Why Some Children May Be Slower to Learn Words

A new study investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who ...

Early Signs That May Help Predict ADHD Risk

Information available at birth may help to identify children with higher likelihood of developing ADHD, according to new ...

Two Brain Networks Are Activated While Reading, Study Finds

When a person reads a sentence, two distinct networks in the brain are activated, working together to integrate the meanings of the individual words to obtain more complex, higher-order meaning, ...

How Music Can Prevent Cognitive Decline

正常衰老与进步cognit相关联ive decline. But can we train our brain to delay this process? A team has discovered that practicing and listening to music can alter cognitive ...

Can You Describe a Sensation Without Feeling It First?

Research with a unique, perhaps one-of-a-kind individual, shows that you can comprehend and use tactile language and metaphors without relying on previous sensory experiences. These findings ...

More Structure, Fewer Screens Makes for Healthier Kids in the School Holidays

In the first Australian study of its kind, University of South Australia researchers found that when primary school children are on holidays, they're less active, more likely to be on screens, ...

The Brain's Cannabinoid System Protects Against Addiction Following Childhood Maltreatment

High levels of the body's own cannabinoid substances protect against developing addiction in individuals previously exposed to childhood maltreatment, according to a new study. The brains of ...

New Insights on Brain Development Sequence Through Adolescence

Brain development does not occur uniformly across the brain, but follows a newly identified developmental sequence, according to a new study. Brain regions that support cognitive, social, and ...

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