The earliest signs of dementia are rarely dramatic. They do not arrive as forgotten names or misplaced keys, but as changes so subtle they are almost impossible to notice: a slightly narrower ...

The research suggests that dogs have the neurological capacity to eavesdrop and learn new words when they hear humans talking ...

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

Abstract: The theme and variation music form is a hierarchical structure in music. It has a theme segment at the beginning, followed by a series of variation segments imitating the theme segment.

NEW YORK — Dogs are great at learning action commands like “sit” and “stay.” They’re less good at remembering the names of things, like what their squeaky or stuffed toys are called. Only an elite ...

There are a few special words that will perk the ears of many a dog – “hungry”, “park” and of course, “T-R-E-A-T”. But a choice group of gifted canines appear to have a remarkable capacity for ...

When Joshua LaFleur prepares his second and third graders to read a science text about the Voyager 2 probe, he doesn’t pre-teach key vocabulary words with a list. Instead, LaFleur, a doctoral ...

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