Sensory Perception News

Posted November 23, 2009:

• Skin Color Gives Clues to Health
• How the Brain Filters out Distracting Thoughts to Focus on a Single Bit of Information

Posted November 20, 2009:

• Examining Mathematical Abilities in Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Posted November 19, 2009:

• Blindness Causes Structural Brain Changes, Implying Brain Can Re-Organize Itself to Adapt

Posted November 18, 2009:

• Bigger Not Necessarily Better, When It Comes to Brains
• Sight Gone, but Not Necessarily Lost?

Posted November 17, 2009:

• First Near-Total Face and Upper-Jaw Transplant Appears Successful

Posted November 12, 2009:

• Why Can't Chimps Speak? Key Differences In How Human And Chimp Versions Of FOXP2 Gene Work
• New Brain Findings On Dyslexic Children: Good Readers Learn From Repeating Auditory Signals, Poor Readers Do Not

Posted November 11, 2009:

• Foreign Subtitles Improve Speech Perception
• Emotions Increase Or Decrease Pain, Say Researchers

Posted November 9, 2009:

• Scientists Create 'Golden Ear' Mouse With Great Hearing As It Ages
• Why Some People Get Sick From Harmless Smells

Posted November 6, 2009:

• Early Scents Really Do Get 'Etched' In The Brain

Posted November 5, 2009:

• Babies' Language Learning Starts From The Womb

Posted November 4, 2009:

• More Action Is Needed To Support Millions Of Tinnitus Sufferers Worldwide, Review Finds
• Learning To Talk Changes How Speech Is Heard: 'Sound Of Learning' Unlocked By Linking Sensory And Motor Systems
• Tiny Laser-Scanning Microscope Images Brain Cells In Freely Moving Animals

Posted November 3, 2009:

• Sights And Sounds Of Emotion Trigger Big Brain Responses

Posted October 30, 2009:

• What You See Is Not Always What You Do
• Disappearing Vowels 'Caught' On Tape In US Midwest

Posted October 28, 2009:

• Musical Sensibility Can Help Shape Teaching, Research Education

Posted October 27, 2009:

• Teacher Talk Strains Voices, Especially For Women
• Is It A Visual Problem Or Alzheimer's? New Data Helps Doctors Make The Diagnosis

Posted October 26, 2009:

• One Shot Of Gene Therapy, And Children With Congenital Blindness Can Now See
• Does Nearsightedness Reduce The Risk Of Diabetic Retinopathy?

Posted October 23, 2009:

• Time-Keeping Brain Neurons Discovered
• Scientists Show How Tiny Cells Deliver Big Sound In Cochlea

Posted October 22, 2009:

• Infants Able To Identify Humans As Source Of Speech, Monkeys As Source Of Monkey Calls
• Looking For The Origins Of Music In The Brain

Posted October 21, 2009:

• Can We 'Learn To See?': Study Shows Perception Of Invisible Stimuli Improves With Training
• Bionic Technology Aims To Give Sight To Woman Blinded Beginning At Age 13
• Women Outperform Men When Identifying Emotions
• Why Cosmetics Work: More Depth To Facial Differences Between Men And Women Than Presumed
• 'Bionic Eye' May Help Blind See: Retinal Prosthesis Shown To Restore Partial Vision
• Prolonged Thumb Sucking In Infants May Lead To Speech Impediments
• Study Examines Treatment For Olfactory Loss After Viral Infection

Posted October 20, 2009:

• Scientists Create Robot Surrogate For Blind Persons In Testing Visual Prostheses

Posted October 19, 2009:

• Is My Robot Happy To See Me?
• Migraine Sufferers More Prone To Hangover Headache
• Cochlear Implants Reduce Delay Suffered By Deaf Children In Language Acquisition, Study Shows

Posted October 18, 2009:

• Findings About Veracity Of Peripheral Vision Could Lead To Better Robotic Eyes

Posted October 17, 2009:

• Seeing Blue: Fish Vision Discovery Makes Waves In Evolutionary Biology
• Gentle Touch May Aid Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Posted October 16, 2009:

• Scientists Discover Protein Receptor For Carbonation Taste

Posted October 15, 2009:

• Tiny But Adaptable Wasp Brains Show Ability To Alter Their Architecture
• Colombian Guerrillas Help Scientists Locate Literacy In The Brain

Posted October 14, 2009:

• Researchers Discover Mechanism That Helps Humans See In Bright And Low Light

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