What's Going On In Your Child's Brain When You Read Them A Story?
Story format alters preschoolers' brain activation: audio activates language with low connectivity, illustrated books engage imagery and internal reflection, cartoons maximize visual processing.
How Childhood Resources Affect Risk-Taking Later in Life
Childhood social versus economic resources shape adult risk-evaluation brain mechanisms, producing similar risk-taking behavior via different cognitive pathways.
Nature reduces stress and sharpens visual processing, meditation links perception with self-awareness via recognition and memory networks, and AI art stimulates interest while engaging fewer neural systems.