Sibling conflict. Decluttering the mind. Preschooler memory.

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• Medical News Today and The Municipal Information Network reprise a release on new Concordia research that looks at how children interpret sibling conflict. The study, recently published in Social Development, is co-authored by Holly Recchia, assistant professor in the Department of Education, and Concordia graduate students Amandeep Rajput and Stephanie Peccia.
• The Montreal Gazette publishes the fourth installment in a week-long series of articles — Aging Well  — produced in partnership with the newspaper and Postmedia Works. Today's article, headlined "Decluttering the mind", features the work of Karen Li, a professor in the Department of Psychology and principal investigator at the Laboratory for Adult Development and Cognitive Aging. The piece focuses on Li's research into the ways older adults maintain or increase cognitive and motor skill performance.
• The Université de Montréal news service and the Halifax Chronicle Herald News report on a study by Caroline Fitzpatrick, a postdoctoral fellow at the PERFORM Centre, and Linda Pagani of Université de Montréal, showing that preschoolers who score lower on a working memory task are likely to score higher on a dropout risk scale when they reach the age of 13.

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