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Solving the 'Cocktail Party Problem': How We Can Focus on One Speaker in Noisy Crowds
March 6, 2013 — In the din of a crowded room, paying attention to just one speaker's voice can be challenging. Research demonstrates how the brain homes in on one speaker to solve this "Cocktail Party Problem." ... > full story -
Help in Reading Foreign Languages
March 6, 2013 — Recent research into how we learn is set to help people in their efforts to read a second or foreign language (SFL) more effectively. This will be good news for those struggling to develop linguistic ... > full story -
Mental Picture of Others Can Be Seen Using fMRI, Finds New Study
March 5, 2013 — It is possible to tell who a person is thinking about by analyzing images of his or her brain. Our mental models of people produce unique patterns of brain activation, which can be detected using ... > full story -
Brain Adds Cells in Puberty to Navigate Adult World
March 4, 2013 — The brain adds new cells during puberty to help navigate the complex social world of adulthood, neuroscientists ... > full story -
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Why Your Brain Tires When Exercising
March 4, 2013 — For the first time ever, a research team is able to explain why our brains feel tired when we exercise. By mapping the mechanism behind so-called central fatigue, the researchers are hoping, among ... > full story -
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Speech Emerges in Children on the Autism Spectrum With Severe Language Delay at Greater Rate Than Previously Thought
March 4, 2013 — Study could reveals key predictors of speech gains. New findings reveal that 70 percent of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) who have a history of severe language delay, achieved phrase ... > full story -
Action Video Games Boost Reading Skills, Study of Children With Dyslexia Suggests
February 28, 2013 — Much to the chagrin of parents who think their kids should spend less time playing video games and more time studying, time spent playing action video games can actually make dyslexic children read ... > full story -
Homeric Epics Were Written in 762 BCE, Give or Take, New Study Suggests
February 27, 2013 — One of literature's oldest mysteries is a step closer to being solved. A new study dates Homer's The Iliad to 762 BCE and adds a quantitative means of testing ideas about history by analyzing the ... > full story -
Songbirds’ Brains Coordinate Singing With Intricate Timing
February 27, 2013 — As a bird sings, some neurons in its brain prepare to make the next sounds while others are synchronized with the current notes—a coordination of physical actions and brain activity that is ... > full story -
Ability to Recognize Emotions in Others Impaired by AIDS
February 26, 2013 — People with HIV are less able to recognise facial emotion than non-infected people finds a new study. Reduction in their ability to recognize fear in others is linked to a similar loss in immediate ... > full story
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