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Looming sounds boost visual perception

Looming sounds boost visual perception

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it’s the sound of a speeding car approaching from out of the blue, or the faint echo of footsteps following you along a dark street, such looming sounds not only make our ears prick ...


Right-handed chimpanzees provide clues to the origin of human language

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 8

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 ...


STMicroelectronics and ARM Team Up to Power Next-Generation Home Entertainment

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

STMicroelectronics, one of the world’s leading set-top-box chip makers, and ARM, announced today that ST has adopted the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, in addition to the Mali-400 graphics processor, for its upcoming set-top-box ...


Young adults may outgrow bipolar disorder

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Bipolar disorder, or manic-depression, causes severe and unusual shifts in mood and energy, affecting a person's ability to perform everyday tasks. With symptoms often starting in early adulthood, bipolar disorder has been ...


Study reveals second pathway to feeling your heartbeat

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our "interoceptive awareness" of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by prominent researchers.


ARM Delivers The Internet Everywhere With Most Power-Efficient and Cost-Effective Multicore Processor

ARM Introduces New Cortex-A5 Power-Efficient and Cost-Effective Multicore Processor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- ARM today announces the launch of the ARM Cortex-A5 MPCore processor, the smallest, lowest power ARM multicore processor capable of delivering the Internet to the widest possible range of ...


Genetics of patterning the cerebral cortex

Genetics of patterning the cerebral cortex

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The cerebral cortex, the largest and most complex component of the brain, is unique to mammals and alone has evolved human specializations. Although at first all stem cells in charge of building the cerebral ...


Hormone clue to root growth

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant roots provide the crops we eat with water, nutrients and anchorage. Understanding how roots grow and how hormones control that growth is crucial to improving crop yields, which will be necessary to ...


Babies see it coming

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Do infants only start to crawl once they are physically able to see danger coming? Or is it that because they are more mobile, they develop the ability to sense looming danger? According to Ruud van der Weel and Audrey van ...


Monetary gain and high-risk tactics stimulate activity in the brain

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Monetary gain stimulates activity in the brain. Even the mere possibility of receiving a reward is known to activate an area of the brain called the striatum. A team of Japanese researchers report in the January 2010 issue ...



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