Posts Tagged ‘cognitive-development’
Study finds that playing videogames may be more cognitively beneficial for children than other forms of screentime (social media, watching videos/ TV)
Many parents feel guilty when their children play video games for hours on end. Some even worry it could make their children less clever. And, indeed, that’s a topic scientists have clashed over for years. In our new study, we investigated how video games affect the minds of children, interviewing and testing more than 5,000 children…
Read MoreLarge study to study impact on early brain development of financial assistance to low-income mothers
___ Does growing up poor harm brain development? (The Economist): “Plenty of evidence suggests that growing up poor, living through these kinds of scrapes, has a detrimental impact on child development. Children from rich families tend to have better language and memory skills than those from poor families. More affluent children usually perform better in…
Read More14 new Speakers, including Rutger’s April Benasich and EMOTIV’s Olivier Oullier, at the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5–7th)
Proud to announce excellent additions to the stellar Speaker Roster at the upcoming 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: Brain Health & Enhancement in the Digital Age (December 5–7th). As director of the Infancy Studies Laboratory at the Rutgers Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Dr. April Benasich’s research focuses on brain development in infancy and early…
Read MoreStudy: Is modernity leading to a growing Cognitive Divide?
— Has Modern Experience Changed The Human Brain? (NPR): “The brain has evolved over evolutionary time scales of millions of years. So, what is the likelihood that the relatively recent advent of reading and writing, or motorized transport, or the Internet, could have changed our brains?
Read MoreStudy: Parents’ educational and income levels (not breastfeeding per se) account for the brain development gains in breastfed children
Study shows no long-term cognitive benefit to breastfeeding (CNN): “While the medical benefits of breastfeeding for helping newborns fight infections and helping pre-term infants get stronger are fairly well established, the long-term impact is much less so…a new study published in the journal Pediatrics finds that breastfeeding has little impact on long-term cognitive development and…
Read MoreHow to Optimize Brain Health at Any Age
How to Optimize Brain Health at Any Age from SharpBrains Presentation delivered by Alvaro Fernandez at the Vancouver JCC, on November 3rd, hosted by Eaton Arrowsmith. Description: Just like the rest of our body, the brain requires care, attention and proper exercise. Yet, we often ignore this most vital organ because few know where to…
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