Neural Activity during Natural Viewing of Sesame Street Statistically Predicts Test Scores in Early Childhood

Neural activity that is evoked naturalistically in children during educational television viewing can be used to predict math and verbal knowledge.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2013-01-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Mathematics, Psychology, Medicine, Education

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001462PMID 23300385PMCID 3536813
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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