A largish Chinese study, involving 541 9-11-year-olds, has found that those who ate fish at least once a week slept better and had higher IQ scores, on average, than those who ate fish less frequently or not at all.
Children's Learning & Development
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The idea that bilingual children have superior executive function compared to monolingual children has been challenged in recent research. |
A Spanish study involving 101 overweight/obese children (aged 8-11) has found that aerobic capacity and motor ability is associated with a greater volume of gray matter in several cortical and subcortical brain regions. |
Research using data from a population-based birth cohort from Rotterdam, in The Netherlands, has found that children exposed to higher levels of air pollution when they were in womb had significantly thinner cortex in several brain regions. |
When you're reading a picture book to a very young child, it's easy to think it's obvious what picture, or part of a picture, is being talked about. But you know what all the words mean. |
A new issue for parents to stress over is the question of whether reading digital books with your toddler or preschooler is worse than reading traditional print books. |
Untreated sleep apnea in children shrinks brain & may slow developmentBrain scans of children who have moderate or severe obstructive sleep apnea have found significant reductions of gray matter across the brain. |
I've reported before on studies showing how gesturing can help children with mathematics and problem-solving. A new Australian study involving children aged 9-13 has found that finger-tracing has a similar effect. |