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In a find that could have massive implications for handling people suffering from speech disorders, experts at the Yale-affiliated Haskins Laboratories have determined that learning how to speak also changes the way sounds are heard in the human brain. The discovery, which is detailed in this week's issue of the... |
3 November 2009
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For a long time, scientists have been curious as to whether knowing more than one language has a positive effect on the brain, or if it benefits thinking patterns. A large number of studies on the issue was carried out, but the conclusions were mixed. Now, a new work done by a European Commission-appointed group brin... |
19 October 2009
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An international team of researchers, composed of experts from the Rutgers University, in Newark, the US, and the College de France, in Paris, has determined for the first time the nature of the mechanisms that take place in the human brain during sleep, which cause learning and memory to form. The scientific proof c... |
16 September 2009
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No matter what you are studying it seems that there is never enough time to do it. And, as if you were not in enough trouble already, the object of your interest is always too complex and you cannot grasp any logical connections or you just consider it to be extremely boring, even though you must learn everything abo... |
10 August 2009
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A new study from experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Picower Institute for Learning and Memory shows that we may have more to learn from our successes than from our failures. The new research, conducted on monkeys, revealed that neurons in the brain involved in learning became a lot more fine-t... |
5 August 2009
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In a new scientific study they've conducted, US experts at the Mayo Clinic have determined that subjecting mothers to anesthetics during Cesarean section surgery has no effect on the children's ability to learn later on in life. The find puts worried would-be mothers at rest, as the dangers of this type of ... |
28 July 2009
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Infants who spend a lot of time in front of the TV may set themselves up for difficulties in learning later on in life, a new scientific research shows. It would appear that even babies under 1 or 2 years of age are capable of “zoning out” in front of the screen, and that this type of behavior may tr... |
2 June 2009
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A new scientific study has uncovered the fact that Alzheimer's patients find it difficult to separate important information from less important one even early in the onset of the disease. This is a very important find, as it could help researchers get a more thorough insight into how the disease acts on the huma... |
4 May 2009
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Violence among children is one of the most appalling types, in that it's unconceivable for the adult mind that kids aged between 8 and 12 can exhibit such sadistic traits of aggression that they make adults shiver. Most explanations for this behavior lie within the influence of “evil,” as most people... |
7 April 2009
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Despite the fact that, over the years, formal logic has brought robotics a long way to the point where it is now, it may be that this approach to making smarter robots might no longer be sufficient anymore. That is to say, it works fine for beating someone at chess, or for matching web pages to search queries, but it... |
19 March 2009
04:55 GMT |
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University of Pennsylvania (UP) researchers have just recently released a new paper, saying that the unexpected is the actual trigger of human learning, in that people can acquire new information or new behavioral patterns if the results of their actions are not those they have foreseen. The main focus of the researc... |
16 March 2009
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Researchers from Sweden have recently published a new scientific and psychological study that again emphasizes the importance of teachers and small children getting along well, and not necessarily as individuals. Rather, the research says that kids and their instructors need to find a common language, one that would ... |
11 March 2009
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The CeBIT 2009 show this year will see the presentation of a new computer-assisted learning program, one that is especially designed to meet the needs of the students and to present content in an accessible manner that will make “Crayons” one of the most appreciated such software, the producers hope. Rese... |
3 March 2009
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In a new scientific study, researchers noticed that young children are heavily influenced by the layout of the Internet page they are visiting. Namely, the way in which the content of the site is structured exerts a heavy influence on the small ones' ability to process and later recall the information they see. ... |
15 January 2009
09:36 GMT |
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The popular video-sharing website has recently gained further praise, as more and more videos detailing subjects such as math, physics, sciences and biology are starting to get posted on-line by specialists or by people who have a gift of explaining fairly complex notions very easily. Students who flunk these subject... |
12 December 2008
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I myself confess that videogames got me interested in history and geopolitics. Old classics like Age of Empire and Colonization made me very interested in the era they take place and in the mechanisms of the worldwide political systems.Microsoft Research, together with the New York University and a consortium of othe... |
8 October 2008
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It's not easy to concentrate after a long sleepless night, everybody knows that. It has been scientifically proven more than once that sleep deprivation actually decreases the activity of the brain, while after having slept, it reaches its highest levels. Washington University School of Medicine researchers have... |
1 August 2008
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As it turns out it really pays to be stupid. Well, at least for flies it does. A study carried out by a team of researchers from a Swiss university revealed that dumber flies live much longer than their geeky cousins. According to the results of the study revealed today by Tadeusz Kwackei and Joep Burger at the Unive... |
4 June 2008
08:39 GMT |
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It is clear that a night owl will enjoy nightlife more than a morning lark. And if they are wise, they've got all the reasons, as a team led by the postgraduate student Martin Sale from the School of Molecular and Biomedical Science at the University of Adelaide has recently discovered: daytime affects your brai... |
16 August 2007
05:58 GMT |
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"Oh, my God, I swear he has just said 'daddy'. He is definitely so smart!" Toddlers can impress you with learning 10 new words daily, but it appears to be quite simple for them, who must handle this vocabulary milestone to eventually reach the adult vocabulary. When being 18 months old, human offspring expe... |
3 August 2007
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Robocop is on the way of being produced. Or perhaps human brained robots are. A new research has revealed that it's possible to store multiple rudimentary memories in a culture of live neurons. The research made by Itay Baruchi and Eshel Ben-Jacob from the Tel-Aviv University further explains how our brain store... |
30 May 2007
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The common conception says language is just another cultural trait, like clothing, hair due, music preference or religious beliefs.It was thought that a baby learns the languages he hears in the early years. But a new research points that genes could be in fact involved in learning tonal languages like Chinese.The te... |
29 May 2007
03:41 GMT |
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Adult people need to hear a language to make the difference from another. But scientists have discovered that four-month old babies can distinguish between different languages just by looking at the facial movements of the speaker.Even when babies watched video recording with the sound switched off, they were able to... |
25 May 2007
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A common concept says that neurons cannot divide.But recent findings show that at least some of the brain regions can form new neurons and in "critical periods" the new neurons in adult brains display the same learning capacity as those in developing brains. These discoveries could one day lead to therapies against n... |
24 May 2007
04:27 GMT |
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Could our dreams be useful in getting new ideas?Researchers at Harvard Medical School believe that sleeping is the way the brain processes the amount of daily information… so the idea above makes sense. It is known that sleep strengthens learning and memory. A previous research at Harvard led by Matthew Walker discov... |
15 May 2007
07:13 GMT |
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Today, you will learn how to create Black and White (B&W) images from color images. This may sound like a simple task for some people, but the results from today's guide will be very professional. We will use several methods to achieve today's task and you will decide which one is better for you. Below is a... |
16 April 2007
10:32 GMT |
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Researchers at Rutgers University have found that the marijuana's active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), interferes with the synchronized activity between neurons in the hippocampus of rats and decreases brain waves, impairing this way memory formation. The hippocampus is a brain part playing a central p... |
30 November 2006
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