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Tag: "word" at biology news

'Juiced-up' battery fueled by sugar could power small portable electronics

...ere as an ´intended´ word. Peach is a very similar word and can confuse the study subject. Therefore Veling termed this a distracting word. Sheep has got nothing to do with mango and is therefore a neutral word. Quicker The test revealed that the study subjects remembered distracting words less w...

Neural bottleneck found that thwarts multi-tasking

...button when a visual stimulus appears and saying a word when a sound is presented. This is known as dual-task interference," Dux, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Psychology, said. "We were interested in trying to understand these limitations and in finding where in the brain this bo...

Sleep enforces the temporal sequence in memory

...llowed. Later, recall was tested by presenting one word and asking which one came before and which one cam... after during learning. Sleep was found to enhance word recall, but only when the students were asked to reproduce the learned words in forward direction. ...

Insomnia drug can improve brain function

...ng, and language tests such as spontaneous speech, word repetition, and object naming. They also conducted brain imaging studies to assess brain metabolism and cognitive activation using PET scans. All of these were conducted with both zolpidem and a placebo in a randomized, double-blind study. The res...

New technologies coming too fast for Indian farmers

...a pattern of "social learning" ?farmers relying on word of mouth to choose seeds. "Very few farmers were doing experimental testing, they were just using it because their neighbors were," Stone says. "There has been a breakdown in the process of farmers evaluating new seed technologies." 'De-skilli...

Research finds music training 'tunes' human auditory system

...tal design, the researchers presented the Mandarin word "mi" to 20 adults as they watched a movie. Half ha..., a tone language. In tone languages, a single word can differ in meaning depending on pitch patterns called "tones." For example, the Mandarin word "mi...

Putting feelings into words produces therapeutic effects in the brain

...al cognitive neuroscience. “When you attach the word ‘angry,’ you see a decreased response in the amygd... subjects’ brain activity. “When you attach the word ‘angry,’ you see a decreased response in the amygdala,” Lieberman said. “When you attach the name ‘H...

Male circumcision overstated as prevention tool against AIDS

... four times as many prostitutes as the rest of the word and they are more than four times as infected. Some southern Africa countries have as many as 7% of their adult females infected and working as prostitutes while in the developed world typically this percentage of infected prostitutes is less than .1...

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