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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 -
New Hope for Autistic Children Who Never Learn to Speak
April 24, 2013 — Scientists are showing that while not all of the current interventions used to improve language among Autistic children are effective, there is real hope for progress by using interventions based on ... > full story -
Clenching Right Fist May Give Better Grip on Memory
April 24, 2013 — Clenching your right hand may help form a stronger memory of an event or action, and clenching your left may help you recollect the memory later, according to new ... > full story -
Body Size Conveyed by Voice Determines Vocal Attractiveness
April 24, 2013 — Deep male voices and high-pitched female voices are perceived as more attractive because listeners gauge the speaker's body size from the frequency of their voice, according to new ... > full story -
Intractable Seizures Halted With Experimental Treatment for Rare Pediatric 'Pretzel Syndrome'
April 24, 2013 — With a better understanding of underlying mechanisms that cause a rare neurodevelopmental disorder in the Old Order Mennonite population, referred to as Pretzel syndrome, a new study reports that ... > full story -
Learning Disabilities Affect Up to 10 Percent of Children
April 18, 2013 — Up to 10 percent of the population are affected by specific learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and autism, translating to 2 or 3 pupils in every classroom, according to a new ... > full story -
Role-Playing Game Brings New Life to a 'Dead' Language
April 18, 2013 — In one Latin class, students learn Latin playing heroes from Graeco-Roman myth — bringing a ‘dead’ language to life through a role-playing game. The application of game theory in ... > full story
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