News tagged with alliterative sounds
The power of Peter Piper: How alliteration enhances poetry, prose, and memory
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 30, 2008 |
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From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that this ...
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Tech toys over $100 that are worth every penny
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
8 hours ago |
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Picking a Christmas gift for the nerd in your life is never easy. In the holiday stampede, it's all too easy to pick an outdated gadget or obsolete program. And mistakes can be costly.
New brain findings on dyslexic children
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
10 hours ago |
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The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, ...
The Beatles Return to Mono
14 hours ago |
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From the White Album to Yellow Submarine modern releases of the Beatles present their music in stereo sound. But this Christmas, hard-core Beatles fans will eagerly unwrap "The Beatles in Mono," an 11-CD box set designed ...
Foreign subtitles improve speech perception
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
18 hours ago |
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Do you speak English as a second language well, but still have trouble understanding movies with unfamiliar accents, such as Brad Pitt's southern accent in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds? In a new study, published ...
Snoring sounds may hold the key to a good night's sleep
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hours of analysing snoring sounds have paid off for a group of researchers from The University of Queensland and Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital.
A motley collection of boneworms (w/ Video)
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like a classic horror story -- eyeless, mouthless worms lurk in the dark, settling onto dead animals and sending out green "roots" to devour their bones. In fact, such worms do exist ...
The Link Between Birdsong And Human Language
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Scientists studying how Bengalese finches use sets of syllables to communicate are a step closer to understanding how humans develop and use vocabulary. After studying the neural networks in finch brains, ...
The Stars My Destination
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2009 |
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The Voyager spacecraft are now in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, traveling toward interstellar space - the first man-made spacecraft to travel such a vast distance from Earth.
UK starts study on using human DNA in animals
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- British scientists begin a new study on Tuesday to consider how human DNA is used in animal experiments and to determine what the boundaries of such controversial science might be.
Words, gestures are translated by same brain regions, says new research
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Your ability to make sense of Groucho's words and Harpo's pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication ...
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