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2008

♦  Portal of Science and Technology: Dong Nai: Science News (Posting Date:?). Baby boys may show spatial supremacy: Male superiority on mental rotation tasks may develop within a few months after birth. This article quotes both Susan Levine and Nora Newcombe.
Retrieved December 18, 2008 from:
http://www.dost-dongnai.gov.vn/sciencenews/tabid/37/isd_news_news/33866/Default.aspx
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♦  (Posting Date November 12, 2008) Displays from the Biological Motion Point-light Action Archive will be used in a short segment within the program "The Science of Sex Appeal" for the Discovery Channel (to air in December 2008).
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♦  PRESS RELEASE from the Office of Congressman Sestak: Sestak (Release Date July 10, 2008). Congressman Sestak Announces $10 million in funding for Conshohocken education partnership.
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♦  PRESS RELEASE from the Office of the Governor Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Rendell, E.G. (Release Date July 10, 2008). Governor Rendell announces $10 million grant to expand Science Education: Pennsylvania Consortium will create National Center for Cognition and Science Instruction.
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♦  Schaffer, A. (Posted July 4, 2008). The Ghost of Larry Summers. Slate. Retrieved October 28, 2008 from http://www.slate.com/id/2194486/entry/2194525/
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♦  Price, M. (May 2008). Outside language looking in: Deaf people with no language exposure provide a window into basic cognition [Electronic version]. Monitor on Psychology, 39(5). Retrieved July 8, 2008 from http://www.apa.org/monitor/2008/05/deaf.html
Two of our Co-P.I.s and their research, Dedre Gentner and Susan Goldin-Meadow are mentioned in this article.
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♦  Kenneally, C. (Published April 22, 2008). When Language Can Hold the Answer [Electronic version]. The New York Times. Retrieved October 28,2008, from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/science/22lang.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Two of our Co-P.I.s and their research, Dedre Gentner and Susan Goldin-Meadow, are mentioned in this article.
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♦  Ehrenberg, R. (Article Date February 23, 2008). On top of words: Spatial language spurs kids' reasoning skills [Electronic version]. Science News Online.
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♦  PRESS RELEASE from Northwestern University News and Information (Release Date January 31, 2008). Gentner named Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor. Retrieved February 28, 2008 from http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/01/gentner.html
Dedre Gentner, one of our Co-P.I.s, is named.
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2007

♦  (Published April 12, 2007). How do humans process information? [Electronic version]. Northwestern University Observer Online. Retrieved April 19, 2007 from http://www.northwestern.edu/observer/issues/2007/04/12/spatial.html
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12/23/2008
Please, welcome to our Network: Paula Goolkasian, Keith Lyle, Jukka Hyönä, Timothy Hubbard, Bradley Sturz, Yaoda Xu, and Anna Shusterman. There are now 219 members in our Spatial Network! Our Bibliography page is up-dated as well.

12/18/2008
Pardon our Dust: The Faculty section of our SILC Members People page is getting revamped. We are reformatting and adding many lovely links.

12/18/2008
Susan Levine and Nora Newcombe are quoted in an article titled: Baby boys may show spatial supremacy: Male superiority on mental rotation tasks may develop within a few months after birth. More info in our Press Room.

12/17/2008
Please, welcome to our Network: Alice F. Healy, Zachary Estes, Monica Castelhano, Victor Ferreira, Timothy Welsh, Joan Stiles, Jesse Sargent, Sean Duffy, Susan Naylor-Emlen, Bruce Bridgeman, Michelle Verges, Naohide Yamamoto, and Tad T. Brunye. There are now 212 members in our Spatial Network! Our Bibliography page is up-dated as well.

12/16/2008
New conference listing and call for symposia & abstracts for ICSC 2009.

12/16/2008
The Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center would like to invite interested researchers currently conducting spatial cognition and learning research to join this open network. If you would like to be involved, please contact Dr. Sian Beilock, Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Chicago to request an invitation:   

12/12/2008
New Call for Abstracts (submission deadline: January 31, 2009) for Thirteenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems. Conference listing here.

12/10/2008
Please, welcome Brian Verdine to our Network. There are now 199 members in our Spatial Network!

12/03/2008
A new Call for Papers for a journal is now up on our Calls/Meetings page. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2008.


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