Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Dr. Randolph Catlin, chief of Mental Health at University Health Services (UHS), a person's reaction to the weather will depend on his or her expectations...
This difference in perception might just be critical, says University of Washington neuroscientist Patricia Kuhl. For it is during the first year of life that children form what Kuhl terms "mental magnets," which sweep up similar-sounding speech sounds and file them away in phonic bins. If language-impaired children never perceive ba and da as different, then they may form mental magnets that file these sounds into the same broad category, seriously undermining their ability to group sounds into words and sentences later on. Indeed, believes Benasich, the ability to make fine acoustic distinctions is one of the pilings...
...talents of Priscilla Painton, the Nation section's indefatigable senior editor. Her mandate stretches from coast to coast; the campaign, and for that matter politics, is only one of the many stories that fall under her watch. Juggling it all, while meeting journalism's unforgiving deadlines, calls for mental rigor and tireless curiosity--something Painton has in abundance. "She has an unerring sense about where the real story is," says chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger. "She's always pushing the envelope to know more...
...gene helps regulate dopamine, a chemical messenger in the brain that mediates pleasure and emotion. Researchers have yet to figure out exactly how the longer gene affects behavior. What they do know, says Dr. Jonathan Benjamin, an Israeli visiting scientist at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and co-author of the study, is that "when a molecule of dopamine arrives knocking on the door to a cell, the cell reacts a little bit more strongly in the people with the long version...
...women's basketball team is to win the Ivy League title this season, it must remedy these weaknesses and find the poise and mental toughness to excel in clutch situations...