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Why Bilinguals Are Smarter
The New York Times: SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are
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Your Brain on Fiction
The New York Times: AMID the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile. But new support for the value of fiction is arriving from
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The Ever-Expanding Definition of “Diversity”
Diversity has become a goal for all sorts of institutions—but its exact meaning may depend on the ideology of the person you’re talking to.
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Girls beat boys at arithmetic because they have better language skills
The Daily Mail: While boys generally do better than girls in science and maths, some studies have found that girls do better in arithmetic – and this is down to girls’ superior verbal skills, according
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Girls’ Verbal Skills Make Them Better At Arithmetic
While boys generally do better than girls in science and math, some studies have found that girls do better in arithmetic. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological
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Embodied and Situated Language Processing 2012
ESLP 2012 will be held August 28-30, 2012 in Newcastle, UK. Abstract submission will open on February 15, 2012 and will close on April 15, 2012. For more information visit: http://eslp.cocolab.org/
