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Gordon Bower
Stanford University
By Jamil Zaki
Ryan — a brilliant, enthusiastic young scientist — spent a two-year layover in my neuroscience laboratory between his undergrad studies in Vancouver, B.C., and graduate school on the East Coast. On his last day in California, we sat over drinks, reflecting on his plans for the future...
Stanford seniors LAUREN KILLINGSWORTH and STEVE RATHJE and MONICA KULLAR, a clinical neuroscience research coordinator, have won 2018 Gates Cambridge Scholarships to pursue graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England.
Stanford scholar Lin Bian found that in times of plenty infants expect fair distribution of goodies like toys or cookies. But when resources are scarce, infants expect people to favor their own social group.
Not playing fair is a common squabble in the sandbox.
Now, new research by a Stanford...
A new study finds that young children’s brains have not yet fully developed the vision circuits they need to understand words and recognize faces, a finding that could help in understanding how children learn to read.
BY NATHAN COLLINS
Young children literally see words and faces differently from...
