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Try listening to music without lyrics. Lyrics can be distracting, whereas instrumental music heightens concentration.

Try to avoid music that is new. You may find yourself paying closer attention to music that is not familiar.

Try to continue one style of studying, such as memorization or math, when listening to a particular type of music.

eye-tracking technology has been around for years, it is now small enough to be used to examine how toddlers view their environment.

New York University led by Karen Adolph

Finn, an 8.5-month-old toddler, was among the participants in this project. She was being coaxed to wear the eye-tracking headgear, which consists of two cameras - one that's looking out on the scene to get the baby's perspective, and another that's looking at the eye to track the movement of the pupil. A computer analyzed both camera views to determine exactly where Finn was looking.

Apr. 16, 2012

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male dogs seem to enjoy better success rates than do younger and female dogs.

The researchers created a mathematical model that mimics

Researchers at the University of Iowa have documented an activity by infants that begins nearly from birth:

The first recorded, probable case of fatal human-to-cat transmission of the pandemic H1N1 flu virus occurred in Oregon in 2009, Loehr said. Details were published in Veterinary Pathology, a professional journal. In that instance, a pet owner became severely ill with the flu and had to be hospitalized. While she was still in the hospital, her cat - an indoor cat with no exposure to other sick people, homes or wildlife - also died of pneumonia caused by an H1N1 infection.

John Spencer, a psychology professor at the UI and a co-author on the paper published in the journal Cognitive Science.

mathematical model that mimics, in real time and through months of child development

“The model can look, like infants, at a world that includes dynamic, stimulating events that influence where it looks. We contend (the model) provides a critical link to studying how social partners influence how infants distribute their looks, learn, and develop,”

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developmental psychologist David Lewkowicz of Florida Atlantic University

Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too.

6 months, babies begin shifting from the intent eye gaze of early infancy to studying mouths when people talk to them.

In one study involving 425 doctoral-level clinicians, nearly one-third believed that a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder was more appropriate than DID.

DID requires the presence of at least two personalities, with a personality being identified as a entity having a unique pattern of perception

These personalities must also display a pattern of exerting control on the individual’s behavior

who presented as a male (23 years) and a female (17 years). The client (host) was female and 30 years old, and had been diagnosed with DID for 13 years. During presentation of the young female personality, the client reported hearing the male alter, which was her primary symptom, along with anxiety and identity dissociation. The client experienced remission of anxiety and hallucinatory symptoms after a month of treatment with perospirone. Treatment was continued for 5 months, and medication was gradually reduced over a period of 9 months. At the time of writing, the client had experienced remission of dissociative symptoms for 1 year

DID can involve some degree of amnesi

Autobiographical memories may differ between alter personalities, allowing the host to retain positive memories while alters contain negative traumatic memorie

A study conducted in 1999 by Read, Loewenstein and Kalyanaraman

The researchers had a hunch people would go for the junk food first, but plan healthy meals in the future.

The revelation from this research is kids who were able to overcome their desire for short-term reward in favor of a better outcome later weren’t smarter than the other kids, nor were they less gluttonous. They just had a better grasp of how to trick themselves into doing what was best for them.

susceptibility to common pediatric conditions such as asthma and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

researchers have identified abnormalities in the brains of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that may serve as a biomarker for the disorder,

ADHD is one of the most common childhood disorders, affecting an estimated five to eight percent of school-aged children.

"Diagnosing ADHD is very difficult because of its wide variety of behavioral symptoms," said lead researcher Xiaobo Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of radiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

15-20 per cent of the general population are procrastinators.

Steel has also come up with the E=mc2 of procrastination, a formula he's dubbed Temporal Motivational Theory, which takes into account factors such as the expectancy a person has of succeeding with a given task (E), the value of completing the task (V), the desirability of the task (Utility), its immediacy or availability (Γ) and the person's sensitivity to delay (D). It looks like this and uses the Greek letter Γ (capital gamma): Utility = E x V / ΓD

intelligence seems to make things worse. The scientists gave the students four measures of “cognitive sophistication.” As they report in the paper, all four of the measures showed positive correlations, “indicating that more cognitively sophisticated participants showed larger bias blind spots.”

smarter people (at least as measured by S.A.T. scores) and those more likely to engage in deliberation were slightly more vulnerable to common mental mistakes.

Education also isn’t a savior; as Kahneman and Shane Frederick first noted many years ago, more than fifty per cent of students at Harvard, Princeton, and M.I.T. gave the incorrect answer to the bat-and-ball question

"We found a basic form of learning in sleeping newborns, a type of learning that may not be seen in sleeping adults

Dana Byrd, a research affiliate in psychology at UF

The findings give valuable information about how it is that newborns are able to learn so quickly from the world, when they sleep for 16 to 18 hours a da