Much work has been done to characterize domain-specific brain networks associated with reading, but very little respect spelling. Our aim was spelling (SpNs) and domain-general resting state (RSNs) in adults without literacy impairments. Skilled impaired were recruited from the University of Alberta. Participants completed three conditions an in-scanner task called a letter probe (LPT). We foun...

It is a curious fact of CNS development that more than half of the neurons and glial cells that are born are destined to die. The elimination of these cells is accomplished by an orderly type of cellular suicide called programmed cell death or apoptosis (pronounced ap-a-tow’-sis). Although developmental biologists have long recognized the role of programmed cell death in metamorphosis and in sc...

The zebra finch acquires its song by first memorizing a model song from a tutor and then matching its own vocalizations to the memory trace of the tutor song, called a template. Neural mechanisms underlying this process require a link between the neural memory trace and the premotor song circuitry, which drives singing. We now report that a premotor song nucleus responds more to the tutor song ...

Recent studies in comparative vertebrate embryology have focused on two related questions. One concerns the existence of a phylotypic period, or indeed any period, during development in which sequence variation among taxa is constrained. The second question concerns the degree to which developmental characters exhibit a phylogenetic signal. These questions are important because they underpin at...

We have been developing a robot called Fetusoid35 that resemble a human fetus or preterm infant. We suppose that the robot could contribute to developmental science by shedding a new insight on the understanding the developmental process of fetuses and preterm infants. Based on the understanding of the mechanism, we can developmental care of preterm infant. This extended abstract briefly introd...