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Baby Brains
National Geographic: In the late 1980s, when the crack cocaine epidemic was ravaging America’s cities, Hallam Hurt, a neonatologist in Philadelphia, worried about the damage being done to children born to addicted mothers. She and her colleagues, studying children from low-income families, compared four-year-olds who’d been exposed to the drug with those who hadn’t. They couldn’t find any significant differences. Instead, what they discovered was that in both groups the children’s IQs were much lower than average. “These little children were coming in cute as buttons, and yet their IQs were like 82 and 83,” Hurt says. “Average IQ is 100.
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Are There Natural Remedies for Cognitive Aging?
The Huffington Post: More than 30 countries now have a life expectancy of 80 or more, a dramatic increase over the last half century. This is good news, but it also brings challenges. The aging brain goes through predictable changes, and as a result, old age is usually accompanied by some cognitive decline, even dementia. Happily, some of the risk factors for mental aging are open to intervention. Diet, exercise and mental activity all play a role in healthy aging, but there are also natural pharmaceuticals that may be of use in staving off decline.
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How Reading Transforms Us
The New York Times: MOST writing seeks to influence you to think or feel how the author wants you to think or feel. The article you are reading now is no exception. We want you to think about certain things in a certain way. But there’s another kind of influence, not typically associated with writing, that works in a different fashion. Here, you don’t try to make people think or feel in any particular way. Instead, you try to get them to be themselves. As parents, for example, we urge our children to discover what will engage them, in a career perhaps, or in a relationship.
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International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society May 5–8, 2016 Granada, Spain www.ps2016.org
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Psychonomic Society’s 57th Annual Meeting
Psychonomic Society’s 57th Annual Meeting November 17–20, 2016 Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Psychonomic Society’s 56th Annual Meeting
Psychonomic Society’s 56th Annual Meeting November 19–22, 2015 Chicago, Illinois, USA www.psychonomic.org/annual-meeting Keynote Address: Asher Koriat, University of Haifa
