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Raphael Bernier
University of Washington http://faculty.washington.edu/rab2 What does your research focus on? Broadly speaking my research focuses on autism spectrum disorders (ASD) — spanning etiology, neuroscience, diagnosis, and intervention. More specifically, I am interested in bridging the
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Andy Baron
University of British Columbia http://childdevelopment.psych.ubc.ca What does your research focus on? My research focuses on the development of intergroup cognition from infancy through adolescence. In particular, I examine the development of intergroup attitudes and stereotypes
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Immigrants or Adolescents?
Adolescent immigrants not only confront normative age-related psychological, social, and biological changes. They also face acculturation-related challenges related to their immigrant status. Disentangling these two sources of intra- and inter-individual variation has become a growing
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Learning, Memory, and Synesthesia
Thanks to toys containing magnetic colored letters, psychological scientists Nathan Witthoft and Jonathan Winawer of Stanford University have made some interesting discoveries about the role of learning and memory in synesthesia. People with color-grapheme synesthesia
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L’altruisme éclairé par un séisme (Altruism informed by an earthquake)
Le Monde: Face à l’adversité, qu’advient-il de l’altruisme, un des piliers du développement des sociétés humaines ? Une étude menée chez l’enfant, avant et après une catastrophe naturelle, livre des réponses étonnantes. “L’ensemble des études
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Wise Beyond Their Years: What Babies Really Know
The Wall Street Journal: Infants as young as 6 months are capable of making predictions based on probability, a higher level of reasoning than is commonly believed possible, researchers have found. When shown a range