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2010

♦  Beilock, Sian (Web Edition: June 14, 2010).Women in Math and Science: It’s Not about Daring to Discuss, It’s About Discussing What is Important. Psychology Today: Blog: Choke. Retrieved June 16, 2010 from:
  http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/choke/201006/women-in-math-and-science-it-s-not-about-daring-discuss-it-s-about-discussing-what
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♦  Bower, Bruce (Web Edition: March 12th, 2010). One key to teaching toddlers with TV: Trickery. Science News. Retrieved March 18, 2010 from:
  http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/57265/title/One_key_to_teaching_toddlers_with_TV_trickery
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♦  On-line press for the SILC-generated research on Female teachers' math anxiety affects girls' math achievement by Sian L. Beilock, Elizabeth A. Gunderson, Gerardo Ramirez and Susan C. Levine.

1. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/01/14/0910967107.full.pdf (the full report)
2. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/25/us/politics/AP-US-SCI-Fear-of-Figures.html
3. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/01/25/326546usscifearoffigures_ap.html&levelId=1000 (registration required)
4. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/55590/title/Teacher_anxieties_may_subtract__from_girls%E2%80%99_math_scores
5. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/education/la-sci-math26-2010jan26,0,2370924.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Feducation+%28L.A.+Times+-+Education%29
6. http://www.educationnews.org/ednews_today/35118.html
7. http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/01/26/girls-might-learn-math-anxiety-from-female-teachers/
8. http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/635274.html
9. http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/01/26/math-anxiety-catch-it/ (blog)
10. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2010/01/research_has_long_shown_that.html (blog)

2009

♦  Advertisement approved by the IRB (Posting Date: November 18, 2009):
Want to help scientists help you? Researchers at the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC) are gathering a corpus of sketches using CogSketch. CogSketch is the sketch understanding software that we are creating, which is available for free from our web site. It has two purposes. First, we are using it to explore how people reason and learn. Second, we are exploring how to incorporate sketching into education, to improve student learning. By gathering people’s sketches, scientists will be able to do analyses that will help them with both of these missions. If you want to participate, all you have to do is download CogSketch, and indicate your acceptance when you install the software. (If you change your mind, there is a “Phone Home” setting in the software preferences.)

♦  Constance Holden (Posting Date: September 4, 2009). Education: Science Needs Kids with Vision. Science. Nora Newcombe (SILC P.I.) and Larry Hedges (SILC Co-P.I.) are quoted in this article. Retrieved September 16, 2009 from:
http://sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/325/5945/1190-b
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♦  Elizabeth Landau (Posting Date: August 25, 2009). Freaky news about your brain may change your mind. CNN Health. SILC Member, David Uttal, is quoted in this article. Retrieved August 25, 2009 from:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/25/nostrils.tone.deaf.lost/index.html
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♦  Heid, Markham (Posting Date: July 16, 2009). Sketching a path to better education. Medill Reports Chicago, Northwestern University. Retrieved July 17, 2009 from:
http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=135901
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♦  Sherman, M. (Posting Date: May 5, 2009). Scholars Debate Spatial Thinking and Science Learning at Conference. SESP News Center, Northwestern University. Scholars from across the nation explore the value of spatial thinking in relation to science learning at a daylong conference sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences (MPES), School of Education & Social Policy, Northwestern University. Retrieved May 7, 2009 from http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/newsCenter/?NewsID=633.
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♦  On-line blog mentions of Kenneth Forbus' Cognitive Science Society virtual colloquia talk on modeling qualitative physics.
     Open this talk (.swf format)  [Approximate running time: 01:30:00]  

1. Mixing Memory (Posting Date: August 9, 2007). Qualitative Physics and Qualitative Politics(?). Retrieved February 25, 2009 from:
   http://scienceblogs.com/mixingmemory/2007/08/qualitative_physics_and_qualit.php
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2. Channel N (Posting Date: August 8, 2007). Common Sense Modeling. Retrieved February 25, 2009 from:
   http://channeln.blogspot.com/2007/08/common-sense-modeling.html
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♦  On-line press for Ratliff, K.R. and Newcombe, N.S. (2008). Reorienting When Cues Conflict: Evidence for an Adaptive-Combination View. Psychological Science, 19(12), 1301-1307.

1. Eurekalert Press Release (Release Date: January 9, 2009). Where am I? How our brain works as a GPS device. Retrieved January 14, 2009 from:
   http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/afps-wai010909.php
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2. Science Daily (Posting Date: January 12, 2009). Where Am I? How Our Brain Works As A GPS Device. Retrieved January 14, 2009 from:
   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090109173203.htm
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3. The Times of India (Posting Date: January 10, 2009). Brain shows the way when we are lost. Retrieved January 14, 2009 from:
   http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Health__Science/Brain_shows_the_way_when_we_are_lost/articleshow/3959721.cms
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4. Medical News Today (Posting Date: January 12, 2009). How Our Brain Works as a GPS Device. Retrieved January 14, 2009 from:
   http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/135032.php
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5. MedicineWorld.Org: Neurology Watch News Blog (Posting Date: January 12, 2009). Where Am I?. Retrieved January 14, 2009 from:
   http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/where-am-i.html
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6. e! Science News (Posting Date: January 9, 2009). Where am I? How our brain works as a GPS device. Retrieved January 14, 2009 from:
   http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/01/09/where.am.i.how.our.brain.works.a.gps.device
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7. Scientific Blogging (Posting Date: January 10, 2009). The GPS You Already Own-Your Brain. Retrieved January 14, 2009 from:
   http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/gps_you_already_own_your_brain
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8. NewsGuide.us (Posting Date: January 10, 2009). Where am I? How our brain works as a GPS device. Retrieved January 14, 2009 from:
   http://www.newsguide.us/education/science/Where-am-I-How-our-brain-works-as-a-GPS-device/
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9. newKerala.com (Posting Date: January 10, 2009). How our brains work as GPS devices to bring things back in perspective. Retrieved January 14, 2009 from:
   http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-72546.html
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10. Machines Like Us (Posting Date: January 9, 2009). Your brain as a GPS devise [sic]. Retrieved January 14, 2009 from:
    http://machineslikeus.com/news/your-brain-gps-devise
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11. Science Centric (Posting Date: January 11, 2009). Where am I? How our brain works as a GPS device. Retrieved January 14, 2009 from:
    http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/article.php?q=09011112-where-am-i-how-our-brain-works-as-gps-device
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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).


♦  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.
  

♦  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.
  

♦  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.
      

♦  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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