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Halve Your Cake And Eat It Too
The Surplus Procedure, a
formula developed by
mathematical political
scientist Steven Brams, is a
new way of allocating
resources to best benefit
all parties. In situations
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Autism Caught On Tape
Computer scientists have
devised two tools to help
people interact with
autistic children.
Videotaping interactions
allows teachers or parents
to replay situations and
evaluate the cause of
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Two Ears Are Better Than One
Unlike other acoustical
devices such as hearing
aids, which just amplify
sounds, cochlear implants
mimic what happens inside
the ear, changing sound
waves into electrical
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New Combat Helmet
Wearing a helmet can make it
hard to figure which
direction sounds -- such as
gunfire -- is coming from.
Soldiers in Iraq are using a
new helmet, called the
Advanced Combat Helmet,
which is padded internally
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Human-Factors Engineers Focus on User-Friendliness
Human-factors engineers -- whose training includes psychology -- specialize in testing products for usability, for example checking whether a copying machine's legs get in the way, or measuring how ... > more -
Incubator Enables MRI Scans on Preemies for Preventing Birth Asphyxia
Designed by a team of doctors, nurses, and engineers, a specially designed incubator allows premature babies to receive MRI scans to assess their health. The scans can measure many indicators, such ... > more -
Physiologists Investigate The Role Of Perception In Motion Sickness
The cause of motion sickness is being investigated by a researcher with a new idea: that the cause is movement, not perceptual differences. A series of motion-sickness-inducing tests shows that those ... > more -
Psychiatrists Can Predict Onset of Alzheimer's with New EEG Test
Using new computer software that analyzes EEG data, psychiatrists can now better distinguish early signs of Alzheimer's from normal aging, by spotting marked differences between the left and right ... > more -
Pediatric Neurologists Use MRI to Understand How Strokes Impair Verbal Abilities
Children who have speech-impairing strokes often learn to talk again, while adult stroke victims can lose their verbal abilities for good. By giving reading and verbal tests inside the MRI, ... > more -
Colors Are Key To Keeping Your Eyes On The Game
People can focus on more than three items at a time if those items share a common color. Psychologists at Johns Hopkins University have demonstrated that when players wear uniforms, it allows ... > more -
Acoustic Study Shows Safe Listening Levels
Loud, sustained sound can damage tiny hairs in the cochlea, and yet 80 percent of people listen to personal music devices at dangerous levels above background noise, a study by acousticians shows. ... > more -
MRIs Peek into the Brains of Synesthesia Patients
Cognitive neuroscientists have now documented hundreds of cases of synesthesia -- the condition in which one sense triggers the response of a different one. Using functional magnetic resonance ... > more -
Psychologists, Human-Factors Engineers Design Computer-Generated Educational Outings
Psychologists Janis Cannon-Bowers and Alicia Sanchez are part of the team that created virtual reality field trips -- not just for fun, but to help children learn. Employing some of the latest ... > more -
Cognitive Psychologists Show Conversations Lower Visual Abilities
A study showed that the part of the brain that controls vision becomes less active when people focus on something visually while having a conversation -- underscoring the hazards of talking on your ... > more
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