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What Makes a Champion? Varied Practice, Not Single-Sport Drilling
Even when young competitors show tremendous promise in a specialized sport, they’re likely to emerge better adult athletes if they take a more multidisciplinary approach.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on suicidal ideation, phone communications and teenagers’ mental-health, involuntary memories in PTSD, atypical abilities in autism spectrum disorder, binge eating, goal pursuit and stress, barriers to effective smoking interventions.
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Direct Democracy: Readers’ Eye Movements May Predict Votes on Ballot Measures
Observing the way readers’ eyes move can predict how voters will respond to real world ballot measures.
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NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Funding for “Outside-the-Box” Ideas
The NIH Common Fund has active funding opportunities for the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. These funding opportunities seek outside-the-box research ideas that if successful would have a large impact in an area of research relevant to the broad mission of NIH.
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Parents Fine-Tune Their Speech to Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge
Researchers have developed a method to experimentally evaluate how parents use what they know about their children’s language when they talk to them.
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Did a Cuttlefish Write This?
Captive cuttlefish require entertainment when they eat. Dinner and a show — if they can’t get live prey, then they need some dancing from a dead shrimp on a stick in their tank. When the food looks alive, the little cephalopods, which look like iridescent footballs with eight short arms and two tentacles, are more likely to eat it. Because a person standing before them has to jiggle it, the animals start to recognize that mealtime and a looming human-shaped outline go together. As soon as a person walks into the room, “they all swim to the front of the tank saying, give me food!” said Trevor Wardill, a biologist at the University of Minnesota who studies cuttlefish vision.
