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A new study found that children develop awareness of some speech cues as they get older, and that current models for predicting speech understanding in kids may need to be updated

The largest study of its kind found that specific brain regions mediate age-related improvements in fluid reasoning in children and adolescents ages 8 to 15

A Boys Town study of 33 school-age children found that hearing aids lowered the cognitive effort of listening to speech in noisy environments. This finding shows that the benefits of wearing hearing aids extend beyond improved access to sound.

Boys Town researchers found that cognitive flexibility in kindergarten and first grade directly forecasts behavioral outcomes in second grade and beyond

Boys Town researchers found that physical activity integrated into learning sessions significantly improves word retention in children

Boys Town researchers found that when anxiety and irritability co-occur in young people, they are associated with distinct patterns of brain activity that may help inform future treatment approaches.