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Music enhances brain’s ability to recognise sounds

November 7th, 2009 - 12:01 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Nov 7 (ANI): Listening to music can significantly enhance human brain's ability to distinguish between various sounds, say researchers. While analysing brain's electrical and magnetic signals, lead researcher Laurel Trainor, from McMaster ...

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Iconic Oswald photo with rifle, Marxist newspapers ‘not fake’

November 6th, 2009 - 3:28 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): A Dartmouth computer scientist insists that the iconic photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, showing him holding a rifle in one hand and Marxist ...

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Music enhances brain’s ability to recognise sounds (re-issue)

October 26th, 2009 - 4:28 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Oct 26 (ANI): Listening to music can significantly enhance human brain's ability to distinguish between various sounds, say researchers. While analysing brain's electrical and magnetic signals, lead researcher Laurel Trainor, from McMaster ...

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Music enhances brain’s ability to recognise sounds

October 25th, 2009 - 11:48 am ICT by ANI -
Washington, Oct 25 (ANI): Listening to music can significantly enhance human brain's ability to distinguish between various sounds, say researchers. While analysing brain's electrical and magnetic signals, lead researcher Laurel Trainor, from McMaster ...

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Scientists find sex-based prenatal brain differences

October 24th, 2009 - 2:01 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Oct 24 (ANI): Prenatal sex-based biological differences can extend to genetic expression in cerebral cortices and are probably associated with later divergences in how our brains develop, a new study by ...

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Brain can be trained to improve visual perception

October 22nd, 2009 - 4:31 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): A new study has revealed that our brains can be trained to consciously see stimuli that would normally be invisible. Study's lead author Caspar Schwiedrzik from the Max Planck ...

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Eyes may help predict Alzheimer’s risk

October 22nd, 2009 - 1:03 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): A new study has shown that eyes could prove to be a potential gateway to identify whether or not a person has Alzheimer's disease. Researchers from University of California, ...

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The brain has a built in predictive text function like those on mobile

October 15th, 2009 - 4:51 pm ICT by ANI -
London, Oct 15 (ANI): Former guerrillas in Colombia have helped neuroscientists locate which parts of the brain are involved in literacy, a finding which could explain why we can sometimes finish the ...

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The human brain is eco-friendly

October 15th, 2009 - 1:38 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Oct 15 (ANI): Our brains have the amazing ability to be energy efficient, say researchers. A study published in Science and reviewed by F1000 Biology members Venkatesh Murthy and Jakob Sorensen has ...

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Beliefs, disbeliefs about God governed by same cerebral areas

October 12th, 2009 - 4:33 pm ICT by IANS -
Washington, Oct 12 (IANS) When it comes to religion, believers and non-believers appear to think very differently. But such beliefs or disbeliefs about God are governed by the same cerebral areas, says ...

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Remains of world’s oldest human brain found in Armenia

October 1st, 2009 - 2:47 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, October 1 (ANI): An Armenian-American-Irish archeological expedition claims to have found the remains of the world's oldest human brain, estimated to be over 5,000 years old. The discovery was made recently in ...

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Flickering bright colours likely to trigger epileptic fits

September 26th, 2009 - 1:07 pm ICT by IANS -
London, Sep 26 (IANS) Certain flickering colours, especially red and blue in tandem, seem more likely to cause fits among epileptics, says a new study headed by a researcher of Indian origin. Joydeep ...

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Here’s how we know a dog is a dog

September 24th, 2009 - 1:54 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, September 24 (ANI): Ask people how they known that a dog is a dog, and they will perhaps say the use of concepts gives them this ability. Dr. Dharshan Kumaran, from ...

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Software may help diagnose cardiac infections

September 14th, 2009 - 1:07 pm ICT by IANS -
Washington, Sep 14 (IANS) New research suggests that "teachable software", designed to mimic the human brain, may help diagnose cardiac infections in a non-invasive manner. Endocarditis -- an infection involving the valves ...

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Puyallup Fair Begins

Puyallup Fair Begins

September 11th, 2009 - 10:59 pm ICT by GD -
The Puyallup town steeped in agricultural history hosts the biggest fair of all times. This year's theme for the fair is "The Big Fantastic". The fair has brought under one umbrella all ...

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Scientists identify another necessary step in memory formation

September 9th, 2009 - 4:49 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, September 9 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Haifa have identified another component in the chain of actions that take place in the neurons, when the brain is in the process ...

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Cities, human brains evolved in similar ways

September 4th, 2009 - 4:19 pm ICT by IANS -
Washington, Sep 4 (IANS) Cities and human brains have evolved in strikingly similar ways, says a new study. Just as advanced mammalian brains require a robust neural network to achieve richer and more ...

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Smart people are sexier

September 2nd, 2009 - 6:01 pm ICT by ANI -
Wellington, Sep 2 (ANI): A person's sex quotient lies in his or her brain, according to a study that suggests that being smart is sexy, and the smartest males get the most ...

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Common drug can function as ‘off switch’ for Parkinson therapy

August 29th, 2009 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Aug 29 (ANI): A common antibiotic can act as an "off switch" for a gene therapy that is being developed for Parkinson's disease, according to a study on rats conducted by ...

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Non-lethal blast waves can cause brain injuries even without direct head impacts

August 27th, 2009 - 2:12 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, August 27 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have discovered that non-lethal blast waves can cause human brain injury even without direct head impacts, which could lead to an enhanced understanding ...

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Brain can predict what eyes in motion will see

August 26th, 2009 - 12:57 pm ICT by IANS -
London, Aug 26 (IANS) The human brain can perceive the outcome of eye movement split seconds before they take in a new scene, says a new study. Researchers asked participants in the study ...

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Scientists identify how meningitis bacteria invade the brain

August 19th, 2009 - 2:37 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Aug 19 (ANI): Scientists in the U.S. have discovered that a specific protein on the surface of a common bacterial pathogen allows the bacteria to leave the bloodstream and enter the ...

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Novel computer model simulates brain’s ability to recognise speech

August 15th, 2009 - 12:30 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Aug 15 (ANI): While it is difficult for computers to simulate the human brain when it comes to listening, scientists have developed a mathematical model that can significantly improve the automatic ...

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Human sound, vision wired through same ‘black box’ in brain

August 13th, 2009 - 4:26 pm ICT by IANS -
Toronto, Aug 13 (IANS) Sounds and images share a similar neural code in the human brain, according to a new study. Scientists from the University of Montreal (U-M) and Montreal Neurological Institute ...

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Why humans can talk and chimps can’t

August 13th, 2009 - 2:00 pm ICT by ANI -
London, August 13 (ANI): A new study has found that a brain region critical to speech and language ballooned after humans split from chimpanzees, which explains why humans can talk and chimps ...

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Sound, vision wired through similar neural code in brain

August 13th, 2009 - 1:17 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, Aug 13 (ANI): A similar neural code in the human brain controls how people perceive a sound and an image, according to a new Canadian study.Researchers from the Universite de Montreal ...

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Flies’ extremely quick eyesight may inspire ultimate vision for robots

August 1st, 2009 - 12:08 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, August 1 (ANI): Inspired by how the blow fly's extremely quick eyesight helps to keep it from losing orientation as it makes "lightning-fast" movements to and fro, scientists in Germany have ...

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The “hobbit” evolved separate to humans

July 31st, 2009 - 3:35 pm ICT by ANI -
Sydney, July 31 (ANI): A new research by Australian scientists has said that the bones of the "hobbit", found in Indonesia, suggest that the species is not related to homo sapiens, and ...

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Species barrier may protect humans eating deer, elk from chronic wasting disease

July 31st, 2009 - 2:26 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, July 31 (ANI): A study on monkeys suggests that people who consume deer and elk with chronic wasting disease (CWD) may be protected from infection by an inability of the infectious ...

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New laws for responsible robotics may soon replace Asimov’s robo guidelines

July 30th, 2009 - 2:50 pm ICT by ANI -
Washington, July 30 (ANI): Two engineers have proposed an alternative set of laws to Isaac Asimov's famous "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics", in order to rewrite mankind's future with robots. "We wanted to ...

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