executive
Nighttime sleep found beneficial to infants’ skills
At ages 1 and 1-1/2, children who get most of their sleep at night (as opposed to during the day) do better in a variety of skill areas than children who don’t sleep as much at night.
That’s the finding of a new longitudinal study conducted by res…
Friends with cognitive benefits
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Talking with other people in a friendly way can make it easier to solve common problems, a new University of Michigan study shows. But conversations that are competitive in tone, rather than cooperative, have no cognitive be…
Cognitive skills in children with autism vary and improve, study finds
People with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are thought to have a specific profile of cognitive strengths and weaknesses — difficulties appreciating others’ thoughts and feelings, problems regulating and controlling their behavior, and an enhanced …