Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Working memory is a basic cognitive process that predicts higher-level skills. A central question in theories of working memory development is the generality of the mechanisms proposed to explain improvements in performance.
A new version of Symantec Endpoint Protection is being pushed out to Waisman PCs this week from DoIT. The updates have been scheduled to occur sometime between 7:00 PM and 2:30 AM, but it is uncertain which day will be picked for each PC. If prompted, you will have the ability to postpone the update, …
Microsoft .NET Framework v. 4.7 is being installed on Waisman PCs. This runtime resource is used by a variety of miscellaneous applications. The v. 4.7 release includes several stability and security updates.
Millions of people globally are at high risk for neurodegenerative disorders, infertility or having children with a disability as a result of the Fragile X (FX) premutation, a genetic abnormality in FMR1 that is underdiagnosed.
How much information can we extract from a five-minute recording of someone talking? Enough to tell whether that individual may be genetically predisposed to some health complications, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Waisman Center and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. In a new study published this month in Scientific Reports, the researchers used …
Probability Learning: Changes in Behavior Across Time and Development Legend: Left: For each trial in the task, a coin was hidden behind a rock, and participants had to guess where the coin was. There was a pattern to be learned across trials: Coins most often appeared behind Rock 5 (70% of the time), followed by …
10-year-old Lauren Tierney had only walked a mile a few times before. Yet here she was, on a cool October morning, at the starting line for the Waisman Whirl Run Walk & Roll for All Abilities, getting ready to tackle the mile loop. Her bright pink sneakers matched her glasses, her blue walker complemented her …
Waisman Center investigator Seth Pollak’s research was recently highlighted in the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology magazine. You can read the full story here.
Children who experience early adversity often develop emotion regulatory problems, but little is known about the mechanisms that mediate this relation. We tested whether general associative learning processes contribute to associations between adversity, in the form of child maltreatment, and negative behavioral outcomes.
Language is used to identify objects in many different ways. For example, an apple can be identified using its name, color, and other attributes. Skilled language comprehension requires listeners to flexibly shift between different dimensions.
