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·January 9, 2016·4 min read

Interaction During Reading Helps Develop Kids’ Language Skills

Interacting with your child while you read to them can help boost language skills in toddlers, a new study reports.

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·December 5, 2015·4 min read

Why We’re Quick to Blame But Slow to Give Credit

A new study sheds light on the paradox of why we're quick to blame a person for their actions, yet slow to give them credit.

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·September 30, 2015·3 min read

Brain Network for Observed Social Threat Interactions Revealed

Researchers use big data analysis and large scale neural recordings to explore how the brain remembers and recalls negative social interactions.

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·September 23, 2015·5 min read

Robotic Toddler Helps Researchers Confirm Babies Time Their Smiles to Make Mom Smile in Return

Using a toddler like robot, researchers confirm that babies use sophisticated timing when they smile to make the person they are interacting with smile in return.

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·August 24, 2015·2 min read

New Technology Helps Transform Behavioral Therapy for Children with Autism

Researchers have developed a new interactive platform that could help young children with autism.

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·April 17, 2015·4 min read

Study Explains How People Avoid Bumping Into Each Other When Performing Certain Tasks

Study looks at the delicate dynamics of social movement.

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·February 26, 2015·4 min read

Study Identifies Neurons That Help Predict What Another Individual Will Do

A new study reports researchers have identified two groups of neurons which appear to play key roles in social interaction.

The image shows MRI brain scans of a person with autism and a control test subject. The scan reveals the neural activity when the person is hugged.

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·December 2, 2014·5 min read

Brain Representations of Social Thoughts Accurately Predict Autism Diagnosis

Neuroimaging techniques allow researchers to use neural representations of social thought to predict autism diagnosis with 97 percent accuracy, a new study reports.