Bilingualism is often associated with stronger executive function. SUTD and NUS scientists found that early bilingual acquisition can also protect cognitive processes that facilitate our social and emotional skills against ...
Mar 26, 2024
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A recent Beyond Blue survey of more than 2,000 teachers identified mental ill-health and excessive screen time as the biggest problems facing their students.
Sep 21, 2023
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A person's "mind reading ability" can predict how well they are able to cooperate, even with people they have never met before.
Jul 13, 2023
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Falling in love is known to feel like a whirlwind of emotions—but if someone asked you how to describe it, you'd probably say you "just knew." Why is that?
Feb 14, 2023
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A new research paper by Northeastern professor Iris Berent demonstrates that the idea that the mind and body are separate and distinct rises naturally in people who are neurotypical and is not just the result of culture or ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Difficulty in recognizing dodgy behavior or not being able to predict someone has bad intentions has often been argued as the reason people with autism can become unwittingly ensnared in crimes.
Nov 17, 2022
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An electroencephalogram (EEG) study of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) identified a neural signal that may help explain the variation of how those with ASD perceive or understand the mental states of others ...
Jun 21, 2021
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When a baby cries, how do you figure out what they want? Without the ability to use words to communicate, we must rely on our "mentalizing" skills—our imaginative ability to intuit what someone else is feeling and what ...
Jun 18, 2021
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Affecting more than one in a hundred children, autism spectrum disorder is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. It has a particular impact on social interaction, including difficulties in understanding other ...
Jun 3, 2021
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For the first time, scientists have identified the individual neurons critical to human social reasoning, a cognitive process that requires us to acknowledge and predict others' hidden beliefs and thoughts. A team of neuroscientists ...
Jan 27, 2021
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