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Soundscape ecologists spawn new field

Geophony. Biophony. Anthrophony. Unfamiliar words. But they shouldn't be. We're surrounded by them morning, noon and night, say ecologist Bryan Pijanowski of Purdue University and colleagues.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Decoding brain waves to eavesdrop on what we hear

Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Fusion plasma research helps neurologists to hear above the noise

Fusion plasma researchers at the University of Warwick have teamed up with Cambridge neuroscientists to apply their expertise developed to study inaccessible fusion plasmas in order to significantly improve the understanding ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research shows hands-free phones just as risky

(AP) -- Like it or not, when someone is talking to you, your brain is listening, processing and thinking about what's being said - even when you're in the driver's seat trying to concentrate on traffic.

Technology / Other

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

The communicative brain

The ability to communicate using language is fundamental to the distinctive and remarkable success of the modern human. It is this capacity that separates us most decisively from our primate cousins, despite ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Playing music alters the processing of multiple sensory stimuli in the brain

(Medical Xpress) -- Over the years pianists develop a particularly acute sense of the temporal correlation between the movements of the piano keys and the sound of the notes played. However, they are no better ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Research shows new therapy helps nonverbal children with autism to say first words

A new treatment can help nonverbal children with autism to develop speech, according to a proof-of-concept study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC).

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The cerebellum as navigation assistant: A cognitive map enables orientation

The cerebellum is far more intensively involved in helping us navigate than previously thought. To move and learn effectively in spatial environments our brain, and particularly our hippocampus, creates a "cognitive" map ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Tinnitus discovery could lead to new ways to stop the ringing

Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are offering hope to the 10 percent of the population who suffer from tinnitus – a constant, often high-pitched ringing or buzzing in the ears that can be annoying ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

How does the brain know what the tongue knows?

Each taste, from sweet to salty, is sensed by a unique set of neurons in the brains of mice, new research reveals. The findings demonstrate that neurons that respond to specific tastes are arranged discretely in what the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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