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Professors speculate that Professor of Law Elena Kagan may end up taking the prize. Several also say they’ve heard that Williston Professor of Law Robert H. Mnookin is an internal candidate receiving strong consideration...
...article, entitled “Brain Development: Memory Enhancement in Early Childhood,” Liston and Kagan suggested that memory improvement during infancy is directly related to the development of the brain’s frontal lobe and hippocampus—the parts of the brain responsible for memory retention and retrieval...
...Professor Kagan is well-respected. No one is going to think less of him for acknowledging the oversight,” Snedeker said. “I hope that this will remind reviewers and editors of Nature that they also have an obligation to ensure that the proper work is cited...
...study that led to their conclusion, Liston and Kagan ran experiments on three age groups—nine-, 17- and 24-month-old children—that tested the child’s ability to mimic new but easily imitated actions like placing a towel in a trash can or wheeling a toy truck across the floor...
Liston and Kagan said in the correction that the study is significant because it provides empirical data linking memory improvement with a specific year of development...