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Primate memory, from simple associations to abstract concepts

Comptes Rendus Biologies, 2021
The hippocampus is a neural structure central to the formation of memories and wayfinding. To understand the neural mechanisms at work during memory formation over multiple episodes, Electrophysiological recordings show that neurons in the macaque ...
Baraduc, Pierre, Wirth, Sylvia
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Central Nervous System Tumors Among Infants in Canada: A Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) tumors in infants are rare, pose unique clinical challenges, and lack large‐scale evidence‐based data to guide management. This study seeks to describe CNS tumors in Canadian infants and to compare their outcomes with those of older children.
Samuel Sassine, Hallie Coltin, Sylvia Cheng, Lucie Lafay‐Cousin, Vanan Issai Magimairajan, Craig Erker, Stéphanie Vairy, Lynette Bowes, Adam Fleming, Donna Johnston, Sarah McKillop, Roona Sinha, Julie Bennett, Christina Coleman, Laura Wheaton, Shayna Zelcer, Samuele Renzi, Thai Hoa Tran   +17 more
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How do young children learn abstract concepts? - Final public report [PDF]

, 2017
Research by Gabriella Vigliocco, Courtenay Norbury and Marta Ponari (supported by the Nuffield Foundation) uncovers some basic facts about how children learn words and concepts like "idea", "philosophy" and ...
Ponari, Marta, Vigliocco, Gabriella, Norbury, Courtenay   +2 more
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Impact of Radiation Therapy on Physical and Psychosocial Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Joint Report From the Children's Oncology Group AYA and Radiation Oncology Committees

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rates of cancer among adolescents and young adults (AYA), age 15–39 years, are increasing. Consequently, radiation oncologists are treating more AYAs who have diagnoses spanning both pediatric and adult practices. Compared to pediatric and older adult patients, AYAs face a unique set of challenges.
Hesham Elhalawani, Rachel K. Peterson, Avani D. Rao, Laurie J. McKenzie, Ahmed Magdy Elmotayam, Leslie Chang, Michael Roth, Susan L. McGovern   +7 more
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The Embodied Teaching of Spatial Terms: Gestures Mapped to Morphemes Improve Learning

Frontiers in Education, 2020
Learning spatial terms in a second language is often an arduous task which learners perform with varying levels of success. While classroom-based studies of gesture have shown the importance of embodied learning, predictions about which teaching gestures
Natasha Janzen Ulbricht
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Social Functioning Within the First Years After Pediatric Brain Tumor Diagnosis and the Relationship With Family Psychosocial Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of pediatric brain tumors (PBTs) can experience long‐term social difficulties, impacting quality of life. Beyond medical and environmental factors, family psychosocial risk may play a role in social outcomes by shaping the caregiving environment and may provide intervention options.
Renske H. Houben, Marisa H. Huisman, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Femke K. Aarsen, Marita Partanen   +4 more
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Contributions of Lateral and Orbital Frontal Regions to Abstract Rule Acquisition and Reversal in Monkeys

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018
The ability to learn and follow abstract rules relies on intact prefrontal regions including the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC).
Giancarlo La Camera, Giancarlo La Camera, Giancarlo La Camera, Sebastien Bouret, Sebastien Bouret, Barry J. Richmond   +5 more
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Abstract concepts in interaction: The need of others when guessing abstract concepts smooths dyadic motor interactions

, 2020
concepts (e.g. “justice”) differ from concrete concepts (e.g. “table”) because they are more detached from exteroceptive and more grounded in interoceptive experience, they do not possess a single object as referent, and they assemble quite heterogeneous
Matteo Candidi, Vanessa Era, Chiara Fini, Federico Darold, Anna M. Borghi   +4 more
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Retrospective Analysis of Donor Lymphocyte Infusions in Pediatric Patients With Mixed Chimerism After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) is an essential therapy for several malignant and nonmalignant diseases, but relapse and graft loss remain the principal threats to its success. Routine monitoring of chimerism and minimal residual disease (MRD) enables early detection of imminent recurrence and guides ...
Carmen Junk, Sebastian Michaelis, Michaela Döring, Thomas Eichholz, Ursula Holzer, Martin Ebinger, Tim Flaadt, Rupert Handgretinger, Peter Lang, Jan Frederic Weller, Markus Mezger   +10 more
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Understanding Abstract Concepts across Modes in Multimodal Discourse: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach, by Elżbieta Górska

, 2020
The fields of metaphor studies, cognitive linguistics and multimodal discourse have given rise, in the last decades, to what we know today as “Multimodal Metaphor” (Forceville 2009), which is rooted in the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), a theory ...
Elena Mattei
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