Sentences with phrase «biggest brain development»

>> AGE «'' Kids age 10 - 13 (pre-adolescence) go through the second biggest brain development phase of their life.

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Although they are mainly just growing bigger and stronger now, there are some key elements of their development going on as the nerves in their brain which control the senses are still forming, eventually enabling them to smell, see, hear, taste and touch.

Of course, with big wheels, she will take this opportunity to discover new sounds, sights, textures, and smells in the house helping her brain development.

Instead, it's crunchy (a big hit with kids) and contains DHA omega - 3 fatty acids — a nutrient necessary for brain development.

A meat diet fuelled the development of our big brain, but what happened when it ran short?

One of the biggest challenges of the Human Brain Project is the development of new supercomputers.

Dennis and other researchers have found that some genes duplicated only in humans are involved in brain development and may account for human's bigger brains (SN: 3/21/15, p. 16; SN: 11/5/11, p. 9).

It is a big idea that could help unravel mysteries of brain development and evolution, and help link neurological and psychiatric disorders to abnormalities in brain structure.

Although the enhanced growth doesn't prove anything about how the infants will do later on, «we know from other studies that bigger is better» when it comes to brain development in this region, Lahav says.

«We found that the amount and type of input children with brain injury receive from their parents or caregivers plays an even bigger role in syntactic and narrative development (but not vocabulary development) than it does in children without injury,» said Levine.

In other words, because humans have relatively big brains, their infants must be born early in development while their heads are still small enough to insure a safe delivery.

«One could imagine, say, if you introduced genes involved with brain growth during development, that you might actually see a bigger brain or a differently structured brain,» he explains.

New research on the related individuals, however, began with different, yet no less important, questions: How was Neanderthal physiological development different from that of modern humans, and how and why did Neanderthals evolve such big brains?

Three major developments of the past 20 years are now bearing fruit: 1) the creation of standards and accountability; 2) research on how the brain develops in early childhood and its implications for pre-K education and child care; and 3) an emerging focus on the single biggest factor in student achievement - teacher quality.

Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers are the authors of more than 40 books and professional articles for educators, including, most recently, Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas (ASCD, 2016), Smarter Teacher Leadership: Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration (Teachers College Press, 2016), Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well - Being (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice (Teachers College Press, 2013) and Flourishing in the First Five Years: Connecting Implications from Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013).

We all understand that in terms of screening for lead, because lead does bad things to a brain, mercury does bad things to a brain,... but toxic stress does bad things to a brain, too — it's a different chemical doing it, but it's still a big problem interfering with brain development.»»

Big Brain Academy for Wii (Wii) Development Team Nintendo / Nintendo Cake Mania (DS) Development Team Digital Embryo / Sandlot Games / Majesco Guitar Hero II (PS2) Development Team Harmonix / Activision / Red Octane More Brain Training (DS) Development Team Nintendo / Nintendo SingStar (PS3) Development Team SCE London Studio / Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Wii Sports (Wii) Development Team Nintendo / Nintendo

Software Development Group No. 4 (Group manager: Hiroyuki Kimura)- Big Brain Academy, New Super Mario Bros. and the Pikmin series

Understanding basic brain development is a big factor in why I chose positive parenting.

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