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'Blindness’ May Rapidly Enhance Other Senses
May 8, 2012 — Not only is there a real connection between vision and other senses, but that connection is important to better understand the underlying mechanisms that can quickly trigger sensory changes, ... > full story -
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Gestures Fulfill a Big Role in Language
May 8, 2012 — People of all ages and cultures gesture while speaking, some much more noticeably than others. But is gesturing uniquely tied to speech, or is it, rather, processed by the brain like any other manual ... > full story -
Bats, Whales, and Bio-Sonar: New Findings About Whales’ Foraging Behavior Reveal Surprising Evolutionary Convergence
May 8, 2012 — Though they evolved separately over millions of years in different worlds of darkness, bats and toothed whales use surprisingly similar acoustic behavior to locate, track, and capture prey using ... > full story -
Dolphin Speaker to Enhance Study of Dolphin Vocalizations and Acoustics
May 8, 2012 — To gain new insights into how dolphins communicate, researchers in Japan created a prototype of an extremely broadband “dolphin speaker” capable of projecting dolphins’ ... > full story -
Built-in Ear Plugs: Whales May Turn Down Their Hearing Sensitivity When Warned of an Impending Loud Noise
May 8, 2012 — Toothed whales navigate through sometimes dark and murky waters by emitting clicks and then interpreting the pattern of sound that bounces back. The animals’ hearing can pick up faint echoes, ... > full story -
Cocktail Party Acoustics: How Humans Perceive Sound in Noisy and Complex Environments
May 8, 2012 — For the ears, a cocktail party presents a chaotic scene: glasses clink, voices buzz, light piano music may waft down from the stage. A group of researchers is trying to understand how the brain makes ... > full story -
Acoustic Diode, Providing One-Way Transmission of Sound, Promises to Improve Ultrasound Imaging
May 8, 2012 — An acoustic diode, enabling the one-way transmission of sound waves, could dramatically improve the quality of medical ultrasound imaging and lead to better sound dampening materials. Such a device ... > full story -
'Game-Powered Machine Learning' Opens Door to Google for Music
May 4, 2012 — Engineers have shown that a computer can be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans. The researchers report that their solution, ... > full story -
Marine Food Chain Becomes Clearer With New Revelations About Prey Distribution
May 2, 2012 — A new study has found that each step of the marine food chain is clearly controlled by the trophic level below it -- and the driving factor influencing that relationship is not the abundance of prey, ... > full story -
Hearing and Touch Have Common Genetic Basis: Gene Mutation Leads to Impairment of Two Senses
May 1, 2012 — New research shows that hearing and touch have a common genetic basis. In patients with Usher syndrome, a hereditary form of deafness accompanied by impaired vision, researchers have discovered a ... > full story
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