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...ON A major theme of the meeting is how to improve listening conditions for children in classrooms, with talks ...re emerging that suggest the importance of a quiet listening environment for students. Steven Stansfeld of the Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry in L...New insight into brain and speech promises help for learning disabilities
...rs -- for participating in achievement assessment, listening skill activities and, most important, the brain related research. For the latter, non-invasive electrodes are placed on the subjects' scalps and an earpiece delivers carefully crafted acoustic sounds in one ear. While her subjects contentedly watch a...New insight into people who 'see' colors in letters and numbers
...colors. Some synesthetes report seeing colors when listening to music, or feeling tactile shapes while tasting food. This cross-activation might develop, they theorize, by a failure of the "pruning" of neural connections between the areas in the developing brain. The rare condition called synesthesia--in which......ocean voices. Using the U.S. Navys anti-submarine listening system from the cold war, and customized systems d...ike ohmygawd! Access to the U.S. Navys underwater listening systems took researchers from fixed-point observations such as ships, to synoptic views of the ocean...Secrets of whales' long-distance songs are being unveiled
...ay -- has been trying to answer these questions by listening to whale songs and calls in the North Atlantic using the navy's antisubmarine listening system. Instead of being used to track Soviet subs as they move through the Atlantic, the underwater...'I had them a moment ago, now where are my glasses?'
...ading, writing, holding a conversation, playing or listening to music, decision-making, and thinking rationally in a general sense. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory computational neuroscientist Carlos Brody ( brody@cshl.edu ) explores how brain neurons interact with each other to form the circuits or "neural netw...Bird brains show how trial and error may contribute to learning
...n humans may explain how children learn to talk by listening to themselves and others, and how adults learn and hone new motor skills, such as tennis. The process relies on feedback about what works and what doesn't, also called experience-dependent or performance-based learning. "That all requires paying atte...Searle grant funds proteomics initiative
...molecular level -- long before symptoms appear. By listening to these important messages we can take action before disease progresses and tailor drugs to meet individual needs." Healthy proteins form bone and muscle, fight infection and control metabolism. Unhealthy proteins cause trouble in the cell. Scientis...Census of Marine Life - Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records, 13,000 species
... Acoustic tags in young salmon allow listening lines on the floor of the Pacific Ocean to record ...outheast Alaska. The tracking array's listening lines also unexpectedly picked up tagged green sturgeon from northern California, rarest of the 26 s......rios or larger groupings on utility poles or other listening posts, which are tuned to certain specific warning...e noise, won't set them off," The device is listening for the entire sound pattern of the gunshot, not just the initial explosion, which makes it much les...Academy eBriefings offer comprehensive reports on more than 100 cutting-edge scientific issues
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