Toddlers' brains on bilingualism. Insomnia research. Smartphone transit map. Ex-Yu.

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• A new Concordia study of the cognitive benefits to children of being bilingual continues to garner media attention. Diane Poulin-Dubois, professor in the Department of Psychology, and Cristina Crivello, a graduate student with Concordia’s Centre for Research in Human Development (CRDH), determined that bilingual toddlers had an advantage over their monolingual peers in a specific area of problem-solving. Coverage is found in La Presse +, LaPresse.ca (the paper's second full story on the research), CTV, Daily Nation (Kenya) Study International, Bilkul Online, The Globe Journal and Liputan 6 (both in Indonesian).
• Professor in the Department of Exercise Science and neurologist Thanh Dang Vu, a sleep researcher who is also a member of the PERFORM Centre, is interviewed for Radio Canada's 'Les Éclaireurs' on the topic of insomnia. The accompanying text includes Dang Vu's tips on countering insomnia and concludes with links to Facebook pages for people who might be interested in participating in Dang Vu's clinical studies of insomnia and of the use of sleeping pills by the elderly. Dang Vu is pictured (fourth, top row) in the show's Facebook photo album.
• Radio Canada International  joins continuing coverage of recent work by Zachary Patterson, assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, involving Patterson's use of smart phones and the DataMobile app he developed at Concordia to map the public transit system in the Ghanaian capital of Accra.
• The Montreal Gazette publishes a review of Ex-Yu (Esplanade/Véhicule Press), by Josip Novakovich (pictured), professor in the Department of English. The reviewer mentions that Novakovich was a finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize for fiction. The piece is reprised by 24news.ca.

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