Can you read my mind? W.M. Keck Foundation funds innovative brain research at Carnegie Mellon
.... They also will demonstrate how reading different words and sentences will produce variations in brain act... fMRI scans that can distinguish which category of words a person is reading about (for example, a list of buildings versus a list of tools) by detecting su...Mechanism of RNA recoding: New twists in brain protein production
... deleting, and modifying the molecular letters and words that guide protein assembly. Often, even simple editing such as changing one letter in an RNA molecule affects the resulting protein's function. There are many different types of RNA editing. Reenan's group studies one particular method called A-to-I...Study shows faces are processed like words
...e, Md. - Although they are dramatically different, words and faces are both recognized by parts, according ...ology (ARVO). It has been suggested that faces and words are recognized differently, that faces are identified by wholes, whereas words and other objects are...When the brain, not the ears, goes hard of hearing
... science. "One sound leads into the next, smearing words together." For instance, most people know that in ... problem, short pauses are imperceptible, blurring words together. The problem has the most effect on a listener's ability to hear the first consonant of a w...Researchers track program's success in curbing aggressive behavior
...y worked on a reading assignment. The first lady's words of praise for the "Good Behavior Game" shined the national spotlight on a classroom management technique little known outside academic circles. Turns out the game works -- keeping the students from violent behavior long into adolescence. For more th...Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
...their emotional response to their new life. In the words of some of Ubel's patients, "What use is there in complaining?" "People are more resilient than they think they can be, and can get through things that they probably would have never thought they could," says Ubel. "The fact that people seem to be so...Effects of autism reach beyond language, new research suggests
.... In one test, students were given a list of three words and asked to think of one word that, when combined...each of the three given words, would make compound words or a short phrase. For example, students were given way, ground and weather, for which the answer wa......eprived than their counterparts in Britain. In the words of Professor Hillyard, who described Northern Ireland as one of the most unequal societies in the developed world, "the challenge for Northern Ireland and local politicians is how to reduce these deep fractures of inequality and create a more just so...Article highlights confusion about Homeland Security safety symbols
...ant confusion in correctly ordering the colors and words attributed to the different threat levels of the HSAS system. Based on previous human factors research, much of the confusion about the symbols was predictable and could have been avoided had human factors methods been used in the design of the symbo...How the stories of ordinary people could give them more say over planning decisions
Stories in their own words from men and women directly caught up in debates and controversies over threats from technologies to themselves and their environment are to be recorded and analysed in new research sponsored by the ESRC. This new approach, which pays much more atte...Thinking of prepositions turns brain 'on' in different ways
...who speak English often use the same prepositions, words such as "on," "in," "around" and "through," to ind...describe time would be disrupted. But we found the words implying time are processed independently." This research was conducted at the Benton Neuropsycho...Baby talk: Infants have much to say if adults will only listen
...tle is known about how babies perceive and process words and sounds from adults and the world around them. ...d white checkerboard pattern while hearing various words or hearing no sounds tells researchers that normal-hearing infants are interested in speech sounds a...Shepherds whistle while they work and brains process sounds as language
...d task, the subjects listened to blocks of Spanish words for colors or animals and the equivalent "words" in Silbo. Individual recorded words were played once every three seconds. While having their brains scanned, the subjects were asked to ...Small band of nurses plays key role keeping germ threats at bay
Flu. Smallpox. Anthrax. Whooping cough. The words represent a veritable murderers' row of infectious agents whose death toll runs in the millions. Between them and us stand a few small groups of nurses at select institutions around the country, including the University of Rochester Medical Center, ...Surprise! Cells have second source of phosphate
...l communication revolves around two very important words -- "stop" and "go" -- elicited when a small bit, called phosphate, is added onto proteins. This addition turns protein activities up or down and fine tunes cells' responses to what's happening outside their borders. This communication can go awry in ...Iris Murdoch's last novel reveals first signs of Alzheimer's disease
...n examination of the characteristics of individual words appearing in the three texts shows that the vocabulary of Jackson's Dilemma was the most commonplace and that of The Sea, The Sea the most unusual. These differences contrasted with the grammatical characteristics of the three books, which remained ...Brains of people with autism recall letters of the alphabet in brain areas dealing with shapes
...t hemisphere takes the lead in processing letters, words and sentences, whereas the right hemisphere plays ... an anterior part of the brain that integrates the words of a sentence, and more activation in a posterior brain area that comprehends individual words. ...Perfect pitch, portable bone-health monitor
...he "tone language" Mandarin, in which the tones of words carry specific meanings. The findings suggest that the potential for acquiring absolute pitch may be universal at birth. It raises the possibility that parents--no matter what their language--may be able to take steps to encourage the development of...Brain regions activated by food craving overlap with areas implicated in drug craving
...smell, and texture. The researchers decided to use words as cues rather than pictures - so each subject could imagine their own most desirable version of the liked food. After the session subjects reported whether they had experienced any food cravings. As expected, the monotonous diet increase......l task, the subjects were asked only to repeat the words they heard, so the researchers could "subtract" any activity due to mental processing in general. The researchers then gave half the dyslexic group intensive training in "phonological" tasks of recognizing and processing word sounds, while the other ...