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  • June 2008
    • Focus, Not IQ, Might be Best School Skill

      Focus, Not IQ, Might be Best School Skill

      (Newser) - EF is the new IQ, and if educators accept that new acronym mantra, more preschoolers will be playing games, Newsweek reports. Executive function—the ability to repress distracting thoughts and focus on a task—could be a better indicator of scholarly success than intelligence alone; psychologist Adele Diamond implemented an EF approach in New England preschools, and the results were striking. More »

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      psychology   intelligence   public schools   preschool   learning   cognitive development

  • September 2007
    • World's Smartest Parrot Is No More

      World's Smartest Parrot Is No More

      (Newser) - Brandeis researchers feel as though they’ve lost a colleague: Alex, the African gray parrot they studied for 30 years, died Friday. He helped them reach surprising new conclusions about the avian brain and “was extraordinary in breaking the perceptions of birds as not being intelligent,” according to scientist Irene Pepperberg, who bought him in 1977. More »

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      obituary   language   African gray parrot   parrot   cognitive development

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