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Read about SILC research and researchers in the press, as well as noteworthy accomplishments.
SILC Press for 2013
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♦ Northwestern University, Department of Electrical Engineering Highlights (April 2, 2013). Forbus describes CogSketch in keynote address. Retrieved April 8, 2013. Our SILC Faculty member, Kenneth D. Forbus, highlighted CogSketch in his keynote address last week in Los Angeles. To read more about CogSketch, please go to our Initiative 2: Understand tools for spatial learning: Sketching. 
♦ Kapp, Diana (March 22, 2013). Annie, Get Your Screw Gun: How a fully wired, build-it-yourself dollhouse could foster the next generation of girl geeks. SILC Faculty Member, Susan Levine (Co-PI), is quoted in this magazine article. Retrieved April 8, 2013.
Retrieved April 18, 2013:
- Can New Building Toys for Girls Improve Math and Science Skills? (Wall Street Journal)
- From Girls' Toys to Future Women Engineers? (Wall Street Journal video link)
SILC Press for 2012
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♦ Clifford, Stephanie (December 3, 2012). More Dads Buy the Toys, So Barbie, and Stores, Get Makeovers. Susan Levine (Co-PI) and SILC-funded research is mentioned in this article. Retrieved April 1, 2013.
♦ Fischer, Kim (July 31, 2012). Spatial skills may be improved through training, new review finds. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
♦ SILC's research helped inform Providence Children's Museum's new exhibit: ThinkSpace. See their blog about the exhibit: http://providencechildrensmuseum.blogspot.com/search/label/ThinkSpace. Retrieved December 6, 2012. Our PI, Nora Newcombe, and our SILC website are referenced at the bottom of one of their blog articles here. Retrieved December 17, 2012.
SILC Press for 2011
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♦ Press coverage for SILC generated research on: Children’s spatial thinking: Does talk about the spatial world matter? by Shannon M. Pruden, Susan C. Levine (Co-PI) and Janellen Huttenlocher. [DOI]. Retrieved March 28, 2012:
- Using words like big and small teaches infants spatial skills (The Telegraph)
- Study: Early spatial term use important (UPI.com)
- Talking About Size, Shape May Aid Math Skills (US News and World Report)
- Study: Early spatial term use important (dalje.com)
- Talking About Size, Shape May Aid Math Skills (DoctorsLounge)
SILC Press for 2010
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♦ Press coverage for the SILC-generated research on the article: Carlson, L. A., Hölscher, C., Shipley, T. F. and Dalton, R. C. (2010). Getting Lost in Buildings. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19(5), 284-289. [doi: 10.1177/0963721410383243] (Retrieved: September 1, 2011):
SILC Press for 2009
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♦ Advertisement approved by the IRB (Posting Date: November 18, 2009):
Want to help scientists help you? Researchers at the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC) are gathering a corpus of sketches using CogSketch. CogSketch is the sketch understanding software that we are creating, which is available for free from our web site. It has two purposes. First, we are using it to explore how people reason and learn. Second, we are exploring how to incorporate sketching into education, to improve student learning. By gathering people’s sketches, scientists will be able to do analyses that will help them with both of these missions. If you want to participate, all you have to do is download CogSketch, and indicate your acceptance when you install the software. (If you change your mind, there is a “Phone Home” setting in the software preferences.)
SILC Press for 2008
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♦ Portal of Science and Technology: Dong Nai: Science News (Posting Date:?). Baby boys may show spatial supremacy: Male superiority on mental rotation tasks may develop within a few months after birth. This article quotes both Susan Levine (Co-PI) and Nora Newcombe (PI).
Retrieved December 18, 2008 from:
http://www.dost-dongnai.gov.vn/sciencenews/tabid/37/isd_news_news/33866/Default.aspx
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SILC Press for 2007
♦ (Published April 12, 2007). How do humans process information? [Electronic version]. Northwestern University Observer Online. Retrieved April 19, 2007 from http://www.northwestern.edu/observer/issues/2007/04/12/spatial.html
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