University of Rochester
(Rochester, NY)
The University of Rochester is one of the country's leading private research universities. Rochester operates on a personal scale, creating exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close work with faculty. The University consistently ranks among the top in federally financed science, engineering, medical, and other research. The unique Rochester Curriculum invites students to learn what they love, allowing for both focus and flexibility. Its College, School of Arts and Sciences, and Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, and Schools of Medicine and Nursing.
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874Patrick O'NeillRuth, thanks for your question. Meliora is the University's motto, and it means "Ever Better!"
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- 3-Minute Classroom: Students in Professor Heather Layton's senior...
- 3-Minute Classroom: Students in Professor Heather Layton's senior seminar in studio arts present their final exhibitions at the historic Hungerford Building in downtown Rochester. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxhMVD7eR-4
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- The Goldilocks Effect
- Researchers at the University of Rochester have uncovered a new finding about how babies understand and investigate the environment around them. Dubbed the "Goldilocks effect", their research shows that infants in the study are not interested in things that are too simple or too complex, but just right. The study followed the attention patterns of 72 seven and eight month olds using an eye-tracking device while they viewed a series of different animations on a screen. When the pattern of objects appearing on the screen was too predictable or too complex the babies tended to lose interest, but they looked longer at patterns that fell right in the middle. Lead author of the paper on the findings Celeste Kidd is a doctoral candidate and has been doing research in the Rochester Baby Lab along with postdoctoral fellow Steven Piantadosi, who developed the statistical model that they used to predict and quantify the behaviors. Dr. Richard Aslin, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University and Principle Investigator at the lab co-authored the study. He believes that the finding could have broad implications for human learning at all ages and lead to earlier diagnosis of attention-related disabilities such as autism or attention deficit disorder.
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