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"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

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Henry Ford Hospital study suggests that C-section babies are susceptible to developing allergies by age two.

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Christine Cole Johnson, Ph.D., MPH, chair of Henry Ford Department of Health Sciences and the study's lead author.

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.

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,”

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

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 the dog, there are 78 chromosomes existing of 39 matched pairs which make up the dog’s “genotype”. On the other hand, the dog’s “phenotype” is what the animal actually looks like and this can be influenced by both environmental and developmental factors. For example, a dog’s adult size is partially determined by his genotype but is also influenced by such factors as health and nutrition as a puppy.

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Each gene provides the genetic instruction to make one protein or control one function. For example, the genes tell the cell to produce a certain chemical or to produce a specific characteristic like blue eyes.

"The less sleep you get, the more your genes contribute to how much you weigh. The more sleep you get, the less your genes determine how much you weigh,"

•Those who slept longer at night had lower body mass index (BMI), based on weight and height, than those sleeping less.

•For twins averaging more than nine hours of sleep, genetic factors accounted for about 32% of weight variations; for those sleeping less than seven hours, genetic factors accounted for 70% of weight variations. For those sleeping seven to nine hours, 60% of the variation was due to genetic factors. Other factors that affect BMI include environmental ones.

resting metabolic rate; physical activity; and calories used to process food.