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When Do Kids Become Adults?
The New York Times: It’s that time of year: “senioritis” has set in. All that remains between childhood and adulthood is the prom and graduation. Many of these high school students have been driving since
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Learn something new – your brain will thank you
CNN: The idea that learning a new skill – say juggling, cooking, or playing guitar – can be like an addiction is no joke. I should know. As a college professor/scientist, who has written about
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Super Women: 5 Amazing Facts About Motherhood
LiveScience: Babies may change mom’s brain Pregnancy may cause permanent brain changes in women, according to research published in 2011 in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science. Most of the research on pregnancy brain
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Daydreamers Could Be the Smart Kids, Says USC Study
LA Weekly: Daydreamers used to get in trouble. They were the underachievers. They were the kids who ended up hanging out under the bleachers and smoking stuff that smelled funny. Right? Wrong. New research co-authored
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Neural Focus Groups
The Wall Street Journal: Can brain scans of small focus groups predict the opinions and reactions of the broader public? 31 test subjects who were interested in quitting smoking were recruited in Los Angeles to
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The Future of Focus Groups: My Brain Knows What You Like
Forbes: Sometimes what you don’t know you know is where the action is. With lessons about both personal humility and the future of focus groups, first of its kind research used brain data from a
