Cognitive Development: Gaming Your Way Out of Dyslexia?

Cognitive Development: Gaming Your Way Out of Dyslexia?

A recent study found that dyslexic children trained on action video games show significant improvements on basic measures of both attention and reading ability, suggesting future directions for the study of dyslexia intervention paradigms.

Remodeling Your Way out of Cell Cycle

Throughout development, proliferative progenitors lose their mitotic potential, exit the cell cycle, and differentiate. In this issue, Ruijtenberg and van den Heuvel identify an important lineage-specific role for a SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex that collaborates with core cell-cycle regulators to promote cell-cycle exit and terminal muscle cell differentiation.

Get your fingers out of p53's way!

Finding your way: The cognitive science of navigation

One overarching research question in cognitive science concerns how information from perception and memory is processed and integrated in order to achieve robust, efficient, and adaptive behaviour in space, as is necessary in wayfinding. Examining this integration is quite complicated, entailing an understanding of learning strategies, spatial memory representations of static and dynamic relati...

Sunspot Fluctuations: a Way out of a Development Trap?

It is well known that in dynamic general equilibrium economic models equilibrium may be indeterminate. Indeterminacy means that there is a continuum of equilibrium trajectories converging to the same steady state. Very often, the same mechanisms that are responsible for indeterminacy, like increasing returns to scale or market imperfections, lead to existence of multiple steady states, and deve...