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How Can a Toddler Learn the Language so Quickly?

"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
04:14 GMT

A Step Further Toward Cyborg

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
03:44 GMT

Learning Chinese is Genetic!

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

Four-Month Babies Can Distinguish Between Two Different Languages

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
03:45 GMT

New Regenerated Brain Works Like a Baby Brain

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

Sleeping Is a Process of Thinking

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

Learning GIMP - Convert Color Images to Black and White

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

Marijuana Affects Memory, Attention, Speech, Thinking

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
05:45 GMT


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