Bilingualism Mythbusters
Bilinguals who know English and this other language can communicate simultaneously in both languages.
What is American Sign Language (ASL)?
Extremely preterm infants may be born at or before 25 weeks of pregnancy, very preterm infants may be born at or before 32 weeks, but most preterm babies are born after this many weeks.
What is 34 gestational weeks?
These two ear accessories allow infants and children to remain in peaceful sleep during an MRI scan.
What are ear plugs and head phones?
This team member lived in Spain for 2 years.
Who is Emely?
This middle English word is used as an interjection that is meant to either surprise or frighten.
What is boo?
After English and Spanish, this is the third most common language spoken in Houston.
What is Vietnamese?
A method where you hold your baby to your bare chest. The skin-to-skin contact helps your little one relax and breathe more easily. It’s an effective way to stabilize low birth weight newborns and may lead to babies leaving the NICU sooner. It is named after this animal.
What is Kangaroo care?
MRIs are safer than x-rays and CT (CAT) scans, which both use this type of electromagnetic energy.
What is radiation?
This team member lived in Mexico for 3 years.
Who is Sam?
Fantasma in English.
What is ghost?
Some research suggests that older adults who know multiple languages have later onset of this disease.
What is dementia?
With a single fetus, the normal gestation period is 37-42 weeks. With twins the normal gestation period is this many weeks.
What is 35 weeks?
For clinical MRIs, many children cannot remain still for the MRI and require medication to help them relax or sleep during the procedure. At CLI our research scans never involve sedation, instead we use this approach to keep infants and toddlers still.
What is sleep or natural sleep?
This team member practices architecture design as a hobby.
Who is Fiorella?
Halloween tradition that has its origin in an Irish myth about Stingy Jack, who tricked the Devil for his own monetary gain.
What is a Jack O’Lantern?
The developmental period in which research suggests children can tell the difference between the languages they hear around them
What is infancy?
This Spanish artist is known for co-founding the Cubist movement and creating iconic works like "Guernica" was born premature.
Who was Pablo Picasso?
In neuroscience, what acronym stands for "functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging," allowing researchers to observe brain activity by measuring changes in blood flow and oxygenation
What is fMRI?
This team member used to have an etsy shop for rugs.
Who is Adolfo?
Bobby "Boris" Pickett reached #1 on the Hot 100 in 1962 just before Halloween and hit the charts again in 1973 with this song - You might even say it was "a graveyard smash!"
What is “Monster Mash”?
Using a few English words when speaking Spanish.
What is code-switching?
Calculating preemie age as chronological age and then subtracting the difference between the birth date and due date is called this. Once you factor in this, studies have shown that premature babies reach their motor skill milestones at the same time as full-term babies.
What is adjusted age?
This is an outdated field in which personality traits were connected to head shape and size. (Note: neuroscientists can’t tell anything about your personality by looking at an MRI!)
What is phrenology?
This team member has a pet dove that plays fetch.
Who is Rosie?
The Bay City -Michigan Times published 1 Nov. 1928: “the peaceful citizens lived in terror of the time each evening when they should be summoned to their front doors to hear the fatal ultimatum of ….”
What is tricks or treat?