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The effects of China’s One Child Policy on its children

The effects of China’s One Child Policy on its children

on 2013/01/13 in Articles, Culture & the World, Feature

  New research shows China’s controversial One Child Policy (OCP) has not only dramatically re-shaped the population, but has produced individuals lacking characteristics important for economic and social attainment. In research published today in Science, Professors Lisa Cameron and Lata Gangadharan from Monash University, Professor Xin Meng from the Australian National University (ANU) and Associate Professor [...]

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Sesame Street Provides Lessons about Natural Brain Development in Children

Sesame Street Provides Lessons about Natural Brain Development in Children

on 2013/01/07 in Articles, Biology & Chemistry

Children are not the only ones who can learn a lesson or two from the Count. It turns out that neuroscientists are gaining key insights into brain development by turning to Sesame Street. While the vast majority of researchers who use neuroimaging techniques to study brain activity in humans use simple tasks and stripped down, short-lasting [...]

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