Music links childhood development across cultures
New York AP report highlights studies from a Colorado conference on music and child development. Researchers say musical exposure boosts language, memory, and emotional growth, with Venda and Trobriand Islanders serving as examples of music integrated into daily life.
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University of Colorado At Denver
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Queen’s University of Belfast
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Papua New Guinea
South Pacific
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Robert Garfias
School of Fine Arts
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University of Oslo Musicology
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Scandinavia
Soviet Union
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Ceaypreier
Fragrance study aims to boost workers attention spans
University of Cincinnati psychology professors William Dember and Joel Wari plan a fragrance trial to influence sustained attention in workers. Funded by a 330,000 grant, the study tests four fragrances on volunteers over one hour of computer-based tasks, seeking improved focus or at least reduced stress.
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William Dember
Joel Wari
The
Univeristy
Raja Parasuraman
Catholic University
Washington
Fragrance Research Fund Ltd
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Warm
Psychology Today
Sperm bank aims high with Nobel donor conceptions
Adrienne Ramm in New York discusses insemination with anonymous high IQ donors from the Repository for Germinal Choice in Escondido. The article notes 30,000 U.S. conceptions this year across 28 banks, including 42 Nobel babies, and details donor anonymity and supply challenges amid public debate on eugenics and ethics.
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California
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American Association of Tissue Banks
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Ark
Robert Graham
The
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Dora Baux
Shockley
U.S
Treatment halts fatal infection in baboons with engineered protein
A preinfection dose of a genetically engineered antibody neutralized cachectin to save baboons from a lethal bacterial infection. researchers at Rockefeller University New York Hospital Cornell and Chiron Labs report in Nature. The study, using 12 baboons, shows therapy blocking cachectin may reduce septic shock risk in humans.
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Nature
Anthony Cerami
Rockefeller University
New York Hospital
Cornell University Medical Center
Chiron Research Laboratories
Emeryville
Calif
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