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Even Positive Stereotypes Can Hinder Performance, Researchers Report
April 24, 2012 — Does hearing that you are a member of an elite group – of chess players, say, or scholars – enhance your performance on tasks related to your alleged area of expertise? Not necessarily, ... > full story -
Smoking, but Not Nicotine, Reduces Risk for Rare Tumor, Study Suggests
April 23, 2012 — New research confirms an association between smoking and a reduced risk for a rare benign tumor near the brain, but the addition of smokeless tobacco to the analysis suggests nicotine is not the ... > full story -
Insomnia Takes Toll on Tinnitus Patients
April 19, 2012 — Insomnia can have a negative effect on tinnitus, worsening the functional and emotional toll of chronic ringing, buzzing, hissing or clicking in the head and ears, according to a new ... > full story -
How Selective Hearing Works in the Brain: 'Cocktail Party Effect' Explained
April 18, 2012 — The longstanding mystery of how selective hearing works -- how people can tune in to a single speaker while tuning out their crowded, noisy environs -- has just been solved. Psychologists have known ... > full story -
Multitasking: Not So Bad for You After All?
April 12, 2012 — Our obsession with multiple forms of media is not necessarily all bad news, according to a new study. Those who frequently use different types of media at the same time appear to be better at ... > full story -
Use It or Lose It: Mind Games Help Healthy Older People Too
March 27, 2012 — Cognitive training including puzzles, handicrafts and life skills are known to reduce the risk, and help slow down the progress, of dementia amongst the elderly. A new study has shown that cognitive ... > full story -
Study to Test New Tinnitus 'Treatment'
March 20, 2012 — A new clinical trial is to test whether a pocket-sized device that uses sound simulation to reboot faulty ‘wiring’ in the brain could cure people with the debilitating hearing disorder ... > full story -
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Research Aims for Better Diagnosis of Language Impairments
March 13, 2012 — Recent studies aim at finding better ways to diagnose young children with language impairments. The work could lead to better treatments for individual children with communication ... > full story -
Discovery of Hair-Cell Roots Suggests the Brain Modulates Sound Sensitivity
March 8, 2012 — The hair cells of the inner ear have a previously unknown "root" extension that may allow them to communicate with nerve cells and the brain to regulate sensitivity to sound vibrations and head ... > full story -
Biologists Locate Brain's Processing Point for Acoustic Signals Essential to Human Communication
March 8, 2012 — In both animals and humans, vocal signals used for communication contain a wide array of different sounds that are determined by the vibrational frequencies of vocal cords. Knowing how the brain ... > full story
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