Children who experience high-quality child care environments as toddlers and preschoolers later perform better on tests of math, language and literacy skills–but only if they also go on to attend high-quality elementary schools, finds a study in Developmental Psychology....
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The window for acquiring a new language stretches almost until adulthood–longer than previously believed, finds a study in Cognition. Nearly 670,000 participants took a grammar quiz through a Facebook app. About 246,000 were native English speakers and 424,000 had...
EEG scans could help diagnose autism in young infants, long before clinical evaluations are possible, suggests a study in Scientific Reports. The infants (89 who were in a high-risk group because they had a sibling with autism, along with...
The human brain evolved its disproportionately large size more in response to ecological challenges–like finding food and shelter–than to the need to adapt to complex social situations, suggests a study in Nature. The proportion of brain size to body...
Kids who are more curious have better math and reading skills in kindergarten, finds a study in Pediatric Research. Researchers examined data on about 6,200 kindergarteners from a U.S. nationally representative longitudinal study that included measures of math and...
Previous research has suggested that the genetic risk for autism is largely passed through the maternal line. However, those studies examined “coding DNA,” the genetic material that directly codes for proteins and makes up only about 2 percent of...
Many school encourage or require that twins be placed in separate classrooms. But a study in Developmental Psychology finds that separating twins has no significant effect on their academic performance. Researchers analyzed data from two longitudinal studies–one from the...
People who recall facing more childhood adversity also report more pain as adults, finds a study in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Researchers asked 265 U.S. adults to describe the adversity they faced a children and adolescents, as well...
Parents’ mental health and parenting style can influence the course of their children’s friendships in elementary school, finds a study in the Journal of Family Psychology. Researchers analyzed data from 1,523 Finnish schoolchildren, followed from first to sixth grade,...