This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

Abstract Duncan et al.(2007) presented a new methodology for identifying kindergarten
readiness factors and quantifying their importance by determining which of children's …

Memory is essential to adaptive behavior because it allows past experience to guide
choices. Emerging findings indicate that the neurotransmitter dopamine, which signals …

Research Findings: The present study investigated whether active play during recess was
associated with self-regulation and academic achievement in a prekindergarten sample. A …

In this paper we highlight why there is a need to examine subcortical learning systems in
children with language impairment and dyslexia, rather than focusing solely on cortical …

Memory systems research has typically described the different types of long-term memory in
the brain as either declarative versus non-declarative or implicit versus explicit. These …

The social motivation hypothesis of autism posits that infants with autism do not experience
social stimuli as rewarding, thereby leading to a cascade of potentially negative …

Decisions are often guided by generalizing from past experiences. Fundamental questions
remain regarding the cognitive and neural mechanisms by which generalization takes place …

While several models of memory consolidation have previously associated hippocampal
activity with declarative memory, there is now increasing evidence that the hippocampus …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate the cerebral
correlates of motor sequence memory consolidation. Participants were scanned while …