Peter Blake, a Boston University associate professor of psychological and brain sciences and director of BU’s Social Development and Learning
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Children with mild asthma can use inhalers as needed, study suggests: Study focused on African American kids supports asthma treatment based on symptoms
A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis supports evidence that children with mild asthma can
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Gene linked to physical and intellectual disabilities identified
Modern science and data sharing converged to underpin a study led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate
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Misjudging the strength of other people’s emotions based on egocentric bias
People of all ages tend to misjudge the strength of other people’s emotions based on an egocentric bias, according to
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How the Internet may be changing the brain
An international team of researchers from Western Sydney University, Harvard University, Kings College, Oxford University and University of Manchester have
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A student’s disability status depends on where they go to school
A new Portland State University study suggests that the likelihood of a child being classified with an educational disability depends
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What we think we know — but might not — pushes us to learn more: New findings challenge the popular assumption that curiosity in general is the prime driver of learning
Spoiler alert if you haven’t watched the “Game of Thrones” season finale. If you think you know the farm animal
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Autism rate rises 43 percent in New Jersey, study finds: Researchers determine New Jersey’s autism prevalence rate for 4-year-olds is one in 35 in new CDC report
A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which uses research by Rutgers University, shows a significant
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Ancient Caribbean children helped with grocery shopping in AD 400
Researchers have long thought that snail and clam shells found at Caribbean archaeological sites were evidence of “starvation food” eaten
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Gesturing related to storytelling style, not nationality, study
There are many stereotypes about gesturing across cultures — the idea that Italians are prone to hand-talking, for example. But
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