News tagged with semantic notion
Taking cues: Sometimes environmental cues can activate thrifty behavior
Consumers are constantly bombarded with subtle and even subconscious cues from their environment. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines whether these cues activate goals that affect behavior in the long t ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Less knowledge, more power: Uninformed can be vital to democracy, study finds
Contrary to the ideal of a completely engaged electorate, individuals who have the least interest in a specific outcome can actually be vital to achieving a democratic consensus. These individuals dilute the ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Word association: Study matches brain scans with complex thought
In an effort to understand what happens in the brain when a person reads or considers such abstract ideas as love or justice, Princeton researchers have for the first time matched images of brain activity ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Interview: Dr. Ben Goertzel on Artificial General Intelligence, Transhumanism and Open Source (Part 2/2)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Ben Goertzel is Chairman of Humanity+; CEO of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; leader of the open-source OpenCog Artificial General Intelligence ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Memory links to 40 winks
(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to executing items on tomorrow's to-do list, it’s best to think it over, then "sleep on it," say psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Echoes of phlogiston in stem cell biology
Before it was learned that matter burns by taking up oxygen, most chemists sought to explain combustion as the release of a mysterious substance, which they named "phlogiston". Phlogiston theory was a conceptual breakthrough ...
Sep 21, 2009 |
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It's semantic -- easier solution to annotate and search images
(PhysOrg.com) -- Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organise, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies, photographers and, potentially, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Running words together: The science behind cross-linguistic psychology
While communication may be recognized as a universal phenomenon, differences between languages -- ranging from word-order to semantics -- undoubtedly remain as they help to define culture and develop language. Yet, little ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 25, 2008 |
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BEA's Grand Plan for SOA
BEA Systems has developed a strategy detailing its view on the high priorities involved in implementing service-oriented architecture and next-generation composite applications. The guidance comes out of BEA's Office of the ...
Apr 03, 2007 |
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Brain's action center is all talk
Neuroscience is tackling a problem that obsessed Hamlet: What is the difference in our minds between talk and action? Less than you would expect, an international research group reports in the Sept. 19 issue ...
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Sep 18, 2006 |
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NSA looking at social-networking spaces
Amidst the political firestorm generated by revealed wiretapping of domestic phone calls, the National Security Agency has recently been revealed to be funding research to ramp up data-mining efforts to encompass social-networking ...
Jun 15, 2006 |
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