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Aging impairs the 'replay' of memories during sleep
Jul 29, 2008 |
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Aging impairs the consolidation of memories during sleep, a process important in converting new memories into long-term ones, according to new animal research in the July 30 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findin ...
Memories may be formed throughout the day, not just while sleeping
Jun 16, 2009 |
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Scientists have long thought that processes occurring during sleep were responsible for cementing the salient experiences of the day into long-term memories. Now, however, a study of scampering rats suggests that the mechanisms ...
The art of persuasion: Are consumers interested in abstract or concrete features?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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What types of messages are most persuasive? For example, would you be more likely to buy a TiVo if an ad described it as offering you freedom or if it explained how you could replay sports events? A new study in the Journal of ...
Sleep helps build long-term memories
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Experts have long suspected that part of the process of turning fleeting short-term memories into lasting long-term memories occurs during sleep. Now, researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for ...
Rats' mental 'instant replay' drives next moves
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have found that rats use a mental instant replay of their actions to help them decide what to do next, shedding new light on how ...
Students Develop 'Mind-Control' Interface to Play Video Games Without a Controller
Aug 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Drexel University students have taken game controller innovation beyond motion control with a “hands-off” approach and developed an interface that allows players to execute actions using only ...
MIT researcher explains how rats think
Feb 12, 2006 |
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After running a maze, rats mentally replay their actions - but backward, like a film played in reverse, a researcher at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT reports Feb. 12 in the advance online ...
Nokia N77 multimedia computer starts shipping
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 12, 2007 |
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Finland is the first to experience optimized mobile TV with the Nokia N77 multimedia computer. Later this month also Vietnam and India will start shipments of the Nokia N77. Consumers will now be able to keep ...
Compellent Adds Server Management to Its Storage Software
Mar 26, 2007 |
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This new software will give the company's customers an easier way to automatically boot servers from their SANs.
Action replay of powerful stellar explosion
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Astronomers have made the best ever determination of the power of a supernova explosion that was visible from Earth long ago. By observing the remnant of a supernova and a light echo from the initial outburst, ...
Cheat-Resistant 3D iPhone Game Relies on Score-Checking Replays (w/ Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Aliens are stealing your beloved sheep and you’ve got to stop them. That’s the premise for TowerMadness, a new 3D iPhone game that is one of the most cheat-resistant iPhone games available, ...
New LED technology and leading light for advertisers
Oct 14, 2008 |
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A new lightweight LED screen developed by UQ Business School's Enterprize business plan competition finalist, LAADtech, proposes to make outdoor advertising more versatile and easier to install.
Sleep enforces the temporal sequence in memory
Apr 18, 2007 |
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We have usually quite strong memories of past events like an exciting holiday or a jolly birthday party. However it is not clear how the brain keeps track of the temporal sequence in such memories: did Paul spill a glass ...
Technology gets a boost in Tampa
Feb 02, 2009 |
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NBC will have the field completely covered for the Super Bowl so viewers can get just about every angle on every play. The broadcast will use 36 cameras, up from the 22-23 used for a regular Sunday night game. This includes ...
New uses for Blackberrrys, PDAs soon
Aug 19, 2005 |
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Phil Hammond carries a PalmOne Treo personal digital assistant with him almost all the time. "It's like carrying my office in my pocket -- I can get my e-mail, my contact list, my notes, even my combination to my locker at ...
