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- Aimee Stahl and Lisa Feigenson - Observing the unexpected enhances infants’ learning and exploration
Observing the unexpected enhances infants’ learning and exploration
Aimee E. Stahl, Lisa Feigenson
Science 3 April 2015;348(6230):91-94
See also: NPR, All Things Considered - Why Babies Love (And Learn From) Magic Tricks, April 2, 2015 2:43 PM ET
- C. David Batty - IQ in Early Adulthood, Socioeconomic Position, and Unintentional Injury Mortality by Middle Age: A Cohort Study of More Than 1 Million Swedish Men
IQ in Early Adulthood, Socioeconomic Position, and Unintentional Injury Mortality by Middle Age: A Cohort Study of More Than 1 Million Swedish Men
G. David Batty, Catharine R. Gale, Per Tynelius, Ian J. Deary and Finn Rasmussen
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009; 169(5):606-615
- Child Intellectual Development in Relation to Cytokine Levels in Umbilical Cord Blood
Child Intellectual Development in Relation to Cytokine Levels in Umbilical Cord Blood Ondine S. von Ehrenstein*, Gila I. Neta, William Andrews, Robert Goldenberg, Alice Goepfert and Jun Zhang Am. J. Epidemiol. (2012) 175 (11): 1191-1199
- Cognition Level and Change in Cognition During Adolescence are Associated with Cognition in Midlife
Golareh Agha, Katrina Kezios, Andrea A.Baccarelli, F. DuBois Bowman, Virginia Rauh, Ezra S. Susser, Barbara Cohn, Piera Cirillio, Bruce G.Link, Pam Factor-Litvak, Ursula M.Staudinger. Annals of Epidemiology.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2019.03.004
Abstract:
Purpose
Cognitive development during adolescence affects health long-term. We investigated whether level of, and change in, language-based cognition during adolescence are associated with cognitive performance in midlife.
Methods
Participants were enrolled in the Child Health and Development Study and followed during midlife (47-52 yrs). Adolescent cognition was measured with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test at ages 9-11 (PPVT-9) and 15-17 (PPVT-15). We examined PPVT-9, as well as a PPVT change-score (derived using the standardized regression-based method) in relation to midlife cognition measures of Wechsler Test of Adult Reading (WTAR), Verbal Fluency (VF), and Digit Symbol (DS) tests. Linear regression models were adjusted for childhood socioeconomic status, age, sex, race, and midlife marital status, education, and occupational score.
Results
In 357 participants (52.1% female, 25.6% African-American), both PPVT-9 (β [95% CI] =0.26 [0.18,0.34]) and PPVT change-score (β[ 95% CI] = 2.03 [1.27,2.80] were associated with WTAR at midlife. PPVT-9 was associated with midlife VF (β [95% CI] =0.18 [0.10,0.25]), while PPVT change-score was not (β [95% CI] =-0.01 [-0.68,0.67]). Neither PPVT-9 nor PPVT change-score were associated with midlife DS.
Conclusions
Both level of, and change in, language-based cognition during adolescence were associated with midlife vocabulary and language function, even after controlling for midlife occupation and education.
- Concussions
- Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is?
Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is? Filmed March 2015 at TED2015
- Fair Warning - Evidence Mounts of Distraction Risks from Digital Billboards Along Roadways
Paul Feldman, Fair Warning, March 30, 2016 Digital billboards clearly catch the eye of passing motorists. But what is also increasingly clear is that such distractions can heighten safety risks in heavy traffic and other complex driving conditions, a long-time roadway researcher says.
- Marianna Virtanen - Long Working Hours and Cognitive Function The Whitehall II Study
Long Working Hours and Cognitive Function
The Whitehall II Study
Marianna Virtanen, Archana Singh-Manoux, Jane E. Ferrie, David Gimeno, Michael G. Marmot, Marko Elovainio, Markus Jokela, Jussi Vahtera and Mika Kivimäki
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009;169(5):596-605
- NPR - All Things Considered Why Babies Love (And Learn From) Magic Tricks (3 min)
NPR, All Things Considered
Why Babies Love (And Learn From) Magic Tricks
April 2, 2015 2:43 PM ET
Cory Turner
- NPR - Male Dolphins Form Complex Alliances When Aiming To Control Females
NPR - Male Dolphins Form Complex Alliances When Aiming To Control Females
April 02, 201511:33 AM ET
Barbara J. King
- Poverty impedes cognitive function
- S. Tong - Lead exposure and cognitive development: Persistence and a dynamic pattern
Lead exposure and cognitive development: Persistence and a dynamic pattern
S. Tong
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 1998(April);34(2):114-118
- The Problem with the Way Scientists Study Reason
Sacha Altay, Nautilus, 2020.
Psychologists studying reasoning extensively rely on logic and philosophy, and neglect psychology’s more natural ally: biology.
- Transcending as a driver of development
Frederick Travis, Frederick. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2016(June);1373(1):72-77. This paper draws from three different bodies of research to discuss the hypothesis that age-appropriate experiences enhance brain and cognitive development throughout the life span. These age-appropriate experiences could be considered as the drivers of development at each age, including drivers to foster development beyond adult abstract thinking, as described in Piaget's formal operational stage. We explore how a nurturing caregiver is the driver in the first 2 years of life, how language learning is the driver from 3 to 10 years, and how problem solving is the driver in the teenage years. To develop beyond adult rational thinking, we suggest that the driver is transcending thought, which can result when practicing meditations in the automatic self-transcending category, such as Transcendental Meditation.