News tagged with communication research
Research shows avatars can negatively affect users
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Although often seen as an inconsequential feature of digital technologies, one's self-representation, or avatar, in a virtual environment can affect the user's thoughts, according to research by a University ...
Women Are Sort of More Tentative Than Men, Aren't They?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women hedge, issue disclaimers and ask questions when they communicate, language features that can suggest uncertainty, lack of confidence and low status. But men do the same, according to new research from ...
Disruptions in daily routine can adversely affect a couple's conversation
Feb 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Is the communication in your relationship a little frosty? It may be the little things you're not doing in daily routines are playing a part, says researcher Leanne Knobloch. Things like forgetting to walk ...
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Critical communication for caregivers
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia represent an exponentially growing social and health care challenge for American families - not only family members who face the progressive brain disease, but also those who ...
Eagle Owls Send Sweeter Valentines When Moon Is Full
Jan 21, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Placing a tracking device on breeding owls with a wing span large enough to cover eight humans lined up side-by-side, is not a walk in the park. But, funded by a grant from the Spanish Ministry ...
Nano-motors facilitate communication between brain cells
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 22, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MRC-funded scientists led by Dr Josef Kittler (University College London Neuroscience) have identified how nano-sized motors in nerve cells help to regulate the balance of communication in ...
Monkeys keep their words short, just like us
Jan 29, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has found that Formosan macaque monkeys prefer to keep their "words" short, using long vocalizations only occasionally.
'Nanofactories': Stopping Bacterial Infections Without Antibiotics
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 27, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research at the A. James Clark School of Engineering could prevent bacterial infections using tiny biochemical machines - nanofactories - that can confuse bacteria and stop them from spreading, ...
Right-handed chimpanzees provide clues to the origin of human language
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Most of the linguistic functions in humans are controlled by the left cerebral hemisphere. A study of captive chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center (Atlanta, Georgia), reported in the January 2010 issue ...
Embodied Cognition: Using Movement to Understand the Mind
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychology professors look at movement to study communication and cognition.
Highlighting racial disparities increases coverage and effectiveness of health news
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Effective communication of health news is needed to raise awareness and encourage behavior changes in populations who experience health disparities, or inequalities in health status, according to the U.S. Department of Health ...
Logitech buys video conferencing firm
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Switzerland-based Logitech is buying video-conferencing equipment firm LifeSize Communications in a 405-million-dollar deal expected to close next month.
Parkinson's disease research uncovers social barrier
Feb 02, 2010 |
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People with Parkinson's disease suffer social difficulties simply because of the way they talk, a McGill University researcher has discovered. Marc Pell, at McGill's School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has learned ...
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