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Brain Makes Call on Which Ear Is Used for Cell Phone
If you're a left-brain
thinker, chances are you use
your right hand to hold your
cell phone up to your right
ear, according to a newly
published study. The study
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Brain Frontal Lobes Not Sole Center of Human Intelligence, Comparative Research Suggests
Human intelligence cannot be
explained by the size of the
brain's frontal lobes, say
researchers. Research into
the comparative size of the ... > full story
Grammar Errors? The Brain Detects Them Even When You Are Unaware
Your brain often works on
autopilot when it comes to
grammar. That theory has
been around for years, but
neuroscientists have now
... > full story
Laughter Perception Networks in Brain Different for Mocking, Joyful or Ticklish Laughter
A laugh may signal mockery,
humor, joy or simply be a
response to tickling, but
each kind of laughter
conveys a wealth of auditory
... > full story
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Brain Anatomy of Dyslexia Is Not the Same in Men and Women, Boys and Girls
May 8, 2013 — Using MRI, neuroscientists have found significant differences in brain anatomy when comparing men and women with dyslexia to their non-dyslexic control groups. Their study is the first to directly ... > full story -
Ice Age Ancestors Might Have Used Words in Common With Us
May 7, 2013 — New research shows that Ice Age people living in Europe 15,000 years ago might have used forms of some common words including I, you, we, man and bark, that in some cases could still be recognized ... > full story -
Don't Txt N Drive: Teens Not Getting Msg: 43 Percent of Youths Admit to Texting While Driving
May 4, 2013 — Teens can get hundreds of text messages a day, but one message they aren't getting is that they shouldn't text and drive. Nearly 43 percent of high school students of driving age who were surveyed in ... > full story -
Monkey Math: Baboons Show Brain's Ability to Understand Numbers
May 3, 2013 — Opposing thumbs, expressive faces, complex social systems: it's hard to miss the similarities between apes and humans. Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a ... > full story -
Early Intervention Found Cost Effective Through School Years
May 1, 2013 — The Early Start Denver Model, a comprehensive behavioral early intervention program that is appropriate for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as young as 12 months, has been found to ... > full story -
Encountering Connections May Make Life Feel More Meaningful
April 30, 2013 — Experiencing connections, regularities, and coherence in their environment may lead people to feel a greater sense of meaning in life, according to a new ... > full story -
Musical Memory Deficits Start in Auditory Cortex
April 30, 2013 — Congenital amusia is a disorder characterized by impaired musical skills, which can extend to an inability to recognize very familiar tunes. The neural bases of this deficit are now being deciphered. ... > full story -
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Happiness: There’s an App for That; Boston Bombings Unhappiest Day in Five Years, New Sensor Shows
April 30, 2013 — The day of the Boston Marathon was the saddest day in nearly 5 years of observations by a team of scientists from the University of Vermont and The MITRE Corporation. For the first time, results from ... > full story -
How We Decode 'Noisy' Language in Daily Life: How People Rationally Interpret Linguistic Input
April 29, 2013 — Suppose you hear someone say, "The man gave the ice cream the child." Does that sentence seem plausible? Or do you assume it is missing a word? Such as: "The man gave the ice cream to the child." ... > full story -
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Reading Wordless Storybooks to Toddlers May Expose Them to Richer Language
April 29, 2013 — Researchers have found that children hear more complex language from parents when they read a storybook with only pictures compared to a picture-vocabulary ... > full story
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