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How we think before we speak: Making sense of sentences
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 20, 2009 |
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We engage in numerous discussions throughout the day, about a variety of topics, from work assignments to the Super Bowl to what we are having for dinner that evening. We effortlessly move from conversation to conversation, ...
Yours, mine, ours: When you and I share perspectives
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 18, 2009 |
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While reading a novel, as the author describes the main character washing dishes or cooking dinner, we will often create a mental image of someone in the kitchen performing these tasks. Sometimes we may even imagine ourselves ...
Can networked human computation solve computer language comprehension?
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Essex hope to answer this question by getting more volunteers to take part in their online game, Phrase Detectives.
Exonerations correct only a small fraction of false convictions
Jan 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Criminal justice scholars often say that the true number of innocent people convicted of crimes is unknown—in fact, unknowable. A new University of Michigan study challenges that belief in one important context.
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Study: Potential criminals deterred by longer sentences
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 18, 2009 |
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Deterrence is often a stated goal of criminal sentencing guidelines, but there is debate about whether the threat of punishment actually discourages people from committing crimes. A new study published in the Journal of Po ...
Lip-read me now, hear me better later
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 12, 2007 |
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Experience hearing a person's voice allows us to more easily hear what they are saying. Now research by UC Riverside psychology Professor Lawrence D. Rosenblum and graduate students Rachel M. Miller and Kauyumari Sanchez ...
Un-total recall: Amnesics remember grammar, but not meaning of new sentences
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 23, 2008 |
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Syntactic persistence is the tendency for speakers to produce sentences using similar grammatical patterns and rules of language as those they have used before. Although the way this occurs is not well understood, previous ...
How listeners perceive verbs
Jan 29, 2007 |
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The verb forms the heart of a sentence. Although a lot of research has been done into the role that verbs play during the transfer of information, less is known about exactly how and when the listener or reader uses this ...
The pen may be mightier than the keyboard
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to writing the pen apparently is mightier than the computer keyboard. Second, fourth and sixth grade children with and without handwriting disabilities were able to write more and faster when ...
Looking at language
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 04, 2009 |
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The study of the neural basis of language has largely focused on regions in the cortex - the outer brain layers thought by many researchers to have expanded during human evolution. Research at Brown University's Department ...
Handwriting-based tool offers alternate lie detection method
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 28, 2009 |
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For ages experts and laymen have been analyzing and trying to crack the code of handwriting characteristics, in order to detect an individual's personality traits, or in most cases, gauge their innocence in the case of a ...
Playing, and even watching, sports improves brain function
Sep 01, 2008 |
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Being an athlete or merely a fan improves language skills when it comes to discussing their sport because parts of the brain usually involved in playing sports are instead used to understand sport language, ...
Zeroing in on the brain's speech 'receiver'
Jun 20, 2007 |
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A particular resonance pattern in the brain’s auditory processing region appears to be key to its ability to discriminate speech, researchers have found. They found that the inherent rhythm of neural activity called “theta ...
Not buying it: Marketing messages may not work in uncommon situations
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2008 |
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Marketers like to talk about "priming" goals -- or sending subtle messages to encourage consumption. For example, thirsty people who encounter ads related to thirst tend to buy more beverages.
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