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Physical Connection 1) The link between a mother and child is profound, and new research suggests a physical connection evendeeper than anyone thought. The physical connection shared by the mother and her child begins during gestation. This connection is provided by …

Physical Connection 1) The link between a mother and child is profound, and new research suggests a physical connection evendeeper than anyone thought. The physical connection shared by the mother and her child begins during gestation. This connection is provided by …

Increasing Academic Success 1) A new research indicates that intrinsic motivation (doing something because it is inherently interesting or enjoyable), and thus higher quality learning, flourishes in contexts that satisfy human needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness. Students experience competence …

Bilingualism and Age Paragraph 4 In all three studies, monolingual and bilingual adults who were compatible on background experiences and cognitive measures completed the Simon task differently. Young and old bilingual people were faster than test takers who spoke one …

Bilingualism and Age Paragraph 2 It was determined that learned information and habitual procedures (crystallized intelligence) hold up well as people get older, said author Ellen Bialystok of York University, but abilities that depend on someone’s attention on a task (fluid intelligence) …

Nano-sized vaccines 1) In the last century, vaccines have greatly contributed to the welfare and public health by preventing the dissemination of infectious diseases through the administration of microorganisms (dead or attenuated, parts thereof or their toxins, alone or in combination with …

Noisy Places and Speech 1- A child may take longer to learn to talk if he or she spends a lot of time near a loud TV or in a noisy day care center, a new study suggests. 2- Infants can’t differentiate …

Patients and mobile phones 1- Hospital patients will be able to use cell phones from now on. Health minister is informing health institutions to let patients use mobiles if they do not interfere with equipment, privacy or cause disturbance. 2- The minister …

Why You Shouldn’t Lie on Your CV 1- Your mother told you that lying was bad, but the adult life educates people not to follow these instructions. In a CV (Curriculum Vitae), people want to present his or her experience …

Dreams and Memory 1- Scientists know that memories are formed in the brain’s hippocampus, but they are transferred probably to the neocortex. Transferring memories from one part of the brain to the other needs changing the connections between neurons. 2- A research team …