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Rosenberg-Lee, M., Barth, M. & Menon, V. What difference does a year of schooling make?: Maturation of brain response and connectivity between 2nd and 3rd grades during arithmetic problem solving. NeuroImage. (2011).
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Stanford School of Medicine News Release: Adding it up: Research shows how early math lessons change children's brains.
CNN The Chart: Does third grade lead to brain changes?
ScienceNews: A year adds up to big changes in the brain.
Shirer, W. R., Ryali, S., Rykhlevskaia, E., Menon, V. & Greicius, M.D. Decoding subject-driven cognitive states with whole-brain connectivity patterns. Cerebral Cortex. (2011).
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Stanford School of Medicine News Release: New imaging method allows scientists to identify specific mental states.
Supekar, K., Musen, M. E., & Menon, V. Development of large-scale brain networks in children. PLoS Biology, 7(7) (2009).
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ABC News: New study reveals brain differences.
PLoS Biology: From Child to Young Adult, the Brain Changes Its Connections.
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Stanford News: Abnormal brain organization in Alzheimer’s disease patients may lead to easier diagnoses.
Stanford School of Medicine News Release: Pioneering Stanford study shows how children's brain signaling differs from adults.
Stanford StoryBank: Pioneering Stanford study shows how children's brain signaling differs from adults.
Supekar, K., Menon, V., Rubin, D., Musem, M. & Greicius, M. D. Network analysis of intrinsic functional brain connectivity in Alzheimer's disease. PLoS Computational Biology, 4(6) (2008).
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Stanford News: Taking a page from Facebook: Researchers track brain networks in Alzheimer's.
Stanford School of Medicine News Release: Facebook concepts indicate brains of Alzheimer's patients aren't as networked, Stanford study shows .
The Times of India (India): Alzheimer’s: Puneite breaks new ground.
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Stanford Report: Taking a page from Facebook: Researchers track brain networks in Alzheimer's.
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Simons Foundation for Autism Research
Sridharan, D., Levitin, D. J., Chafe, C. H., Berger, J. & Menon, V. Neural dynamics of event segmentation in music: Converging evidence for dissociable ventral and dorsal streams. Neuron, 55(3), 21-532 (2007).
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ABC News: Music and the pregnant pause.
Ascribe: How the Brain Responds as the Beat Goes on: McGill, Stanford Researchers First to Map Neural Responses to Transitions in Music.
Business Wire: Music Moves Brain to Pay Attention, Stanford Study Finds.
Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (Canada): In music and memory formation, silence is golden, researchers say.
Cell Press(Neuron): Music hath charms to probe the brain's auditory circuitry.
EurekAlert: Music hath charms to probe the brain's auditory circuitry.
Forskning (Norway): Barokk hjerneforskning.
Le Devoir (French Canada): Notre cerveau aurait l'instinct mélomane.
Le Scienze (Italy): Musica & cervello.
McGill News (Canada): How the brain responds as the beat goes on.
NetDoktor.De Nachrichten (Germany): Gehirn: Musik schärft die Aufmerksamkeit
News-Medical.net (Australia): Music moves brain to pay attention.
Palo Alto Online: Study: Music makes brain work better.
Science Daily: Music Moves Brain To Pay Attention, Study Finds.
Stanford News: Music moves brain to pay attention, organize events.
Stanford School of Medicine News Release: Music moves brain to pay attention, Stanford study finds.
The Hindu (India): Music moves brain to pay attention: study.
Times of India (India): Hear music for a sharper brain.
U.S. News: Researchers Watch Music Play in the Brain.
Washington Post: Researchers watch music play in the brain.
Zee News (India): Listening to music makes the brain work better.
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Music and the Pregnant Pause: Research Shows a Moment of Silence Enhances the Experience
Brazilian Magazine "What's Up?" (Brazil)
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La Repubblica (Italy): La magia della musica "Così attiva il cervello."
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Scientific American: The Sound Track of Our Minds.
Sounds Opinion, Chicago Public Radio
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The Daily Telegraph (U.K.): Our brains crackle to the sound of silence.
The Calcutta Telegraph: Our brains crackle to the sound of silence.
WNYC, NPR
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Menon, V. & Levitin, D. J. The rewards of music listening: Response and physiological connectivity of the mesolimbic system. Neuroimage, 28(1), 175-184 (2005).
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New York Times: Music of the Hemispheres
Azim, E., Mobbs, D., Jo, B., Menon, V. & Reiss, A. L. Sex differences in brain activation elicited by humor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 102(45), 16496-16501 (2005).
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Adleman, N. E., Menon, V., Blasey, C. M., White, C. D., Warsofsky, I. S., Glover, G. H. & Reiss, A. L. A developmental fMRI study of the Stroop color-word task. Neuroimage. 16(1), 61-75 (2002).
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