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ScienceDaily: Intelligence News
Intelligence - nature or
nurture? Researchers find a gene for intelligence and also that a
bigger brain matters, yet other recent articles show how
motivation affects learning.
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Does Modernization Affect Children's Cognitive Development?
Using data from the late 1970s, researchers have looked at almost 200 children ages 3 to 9 in Belize, Kenya, Nepal and American Samoa to determine whether modernization changes have had an effect on the thinking skills that are learned over the course of childhood. Results show that children in communities with more modern resources performed better in some areas of cognitive functioning and that they took part in more complex sequences of play.
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