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Visual learners convert words to pictures in the brain and vice versa
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 25, 2009 |
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A University of Pennsylvania psychology study, using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to scan the brain, reveals that people who consider themselves visual learners, as opposed to verbal learners, have a tendency ...
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Online educational empowerment
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 22, 2009 |
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Online learning communities flourish best if individual learners have self-governance. That is the conclusion of a US study published in the International Journal of Web Based Communities.
Can different languages be analyzed using the same model?
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Spanish and Russian are relatively different languages, even if they historically share a common basis in the Indo-European family. The differences extend to the verbal system. Spanish has inherited a system that is relatively ...
Differences in language-related brain activity affected by sex?
Feb 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Men show greater activation than women in the brain regions connected to language, according to researchers from CNRS, Université de Montpellier I and Montpellier III. This work is published in the ...
Schizophrenic patients' frozen faces harm social interactions
Jan 23, 2009 |
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Non-verbal communication, in the form of facial expressions, may be impaired in people with schizophrenia. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions have shown that defici ...
Language performance and differences in brain activity possibly affected by sex
Jan 29, 2009 |
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In a new fMRI study conducted in the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Laboratory (Montpellier I University, France) and published by Elsevier in the February 2009 issue of Cortex, researchers found differ ...
Let's get non-verbal, electronically
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a suite of tools to add non-verbal cues to email, phone calls, chats and other channels of electronic communication. It is fascinating work, and the real-world applications ...
Certain types of thinking are best suited to certain types of problem-solving
Nov 12, 2008 |
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A new study in the journal Mind, Brain, and Education reveals that certain types of thinking are best suited to solving certain types of problems. Specifically, geometry problems are best solved by a combination of verbal ...
Exposure to two languages carries far-reaching benefits
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 19, 2009 |
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People who can speak two languages are more adept at learning a new foreign language than their monolingual counterparts, according to research conducted at Northwestern University. And their bilingual advantage persists ...
High school put-downs make it hard for students to learn, study says
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Sep 01, 2009 |
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High-school put-downs are such a staple of teen culture that many educators don't take them seriously. However, a University of Illinois study suggests that classroom disruptions and psychologically hostile school environments ...
Research finds America's elderly suffering abuse
Aug 22, 2008 |
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A new study concludes that nearly 13 percent of America's aged citizens suffer some form of abuse. Specifically, nine percent of adults reported they have suffered from verbal mistreatment, 3.5 percent suffer financial mistreatment, ...
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