'Use it or lose it' warning rings true when it comes to exercise
...ferent kinds of tasks, such as generating lists of words in specific categories, matching symbols to corresponding numbers and completing a complex connect-the-dots task. "These cognitive tasks in our study tested a person's ability to maintain a train of thought," Emery said. "COPD-related cognitiv...Reading test may validly estimate pre-dementia functioning
...980s. The NART requires people to try to pronounce words that do not follow the usual rules of pronunciatio...s of memory involved in pronunciation of irregular words remain relatively intact. "Among the declining cognitive skills of a person's brain in early dementi...Sitting in nonsmoking sections a powerful tactic for preventing teen smoking
...king sections. These actions help you back up your words when you tell your kids you don't want them to smoke, even if you are addicted to cigarettes. It appears to be a way to communicate that this is something that you seriously care about, it's important, and it's not just something you're saying," she ...Day-care services could be option for pregnancy complications
...iversity School of Medicine, USA, concludes: "Some words of caution are necessary before widespread adoption of antenatal day care for pregnancy complications. There were no cost savings, as measured here. Day care requires duplication of space and staff resources these women all had serious conditions tha...A bird 'language' gene pinpointed
...rdination, but an inability to correctly pronounce words or form them into grammatically correct sentences. What's more, they have trouble understanding complex language." When evolutionary geneticists compared the DNA sequence of the normal human FoxP2 gene with nonhuman primates and other species, they ...Regardless of race, pain feels pretty much the same
...able' for the unpleasantness of the sensation, and words ranging from 'nothing' to 'extremely intense' for its intensity. There are 11 gradations in between. (See Backgrounder at http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/march04/pain-background.html ) "If we used the standard pain scales, women reported more pain t...A little music with exercise boosts brain power, study suggests
...ession by asking participants to generate lists of words in specific categories. "This kind of task challenges the part of the brain that handles planning and abstract thought as well as a person's capacity for organized verbal processing," Emery said. Participants reported feeling better emotionally and m...Memories light up the corners of our minds
...partment, asked 14 men and 14 women to "learn" 150 words related to events, while the participants brains w...magnetic resonance imaging) procedure. Some of the words represented arousing events, such as "rape" or "slaughter." Others were nonarousing, such as "sorrow...Scientists raise caution about effects of HRT on hearing
...ternet the computer takes those signals and makes words and graphics which we grasp quickly. Our brains do similar work, filtering out unneeded information and prioritizing and organizing other information in a way we can understand. It's this sophisticated system that decreases as we get older, the team...Two centres for infectious diseases established
...ntific research. The centres are virtual, in other words research groups from different institutes participate in the centres....UF research adds to evidence that unborn children hear 'melody' of speech
...igible was that the higher-frequency consonants in words tended to be absent or confused. In other words, "ship" could easily be heard as "slit" or "sit." Lower-frequency vowels, by contrast, tended to penetrate the inner ear to a much greater extent. Charlene Krueger, a UF assistant professor of nursing ...Are our brains wired for race or gender bias?
...xample, the "Race" test asked subjects to classify words such as "wonderful", "agony", "love" as being eith...and African-Americans were then flashed with these words and testers made rapid word-picture associations. Response times indicated that many white America...'Science' showcases research on forgetting
... Anderson devised. Subjects first learned pairs of words such as ordeal-roach, steam-train and jaw-gum. Then they were given the first member of each word pair and asked either to think of the second word, or to suppress awareness of the second word. Subjects performed this task while being scanned in a fu...Distress-prone people more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease
...easured by asking participants to recall a list of words or a story. Problems with episodic memory are typical in people with Alzheimer's disease. Episodic memory ability declined 10 times faster in those high in distress proneness than in those low in distress proneness. The researchers also evaluated the...National study seeks cause of baffling, fatal disorder called multiple system atrophy
...husiast, Suzanne began to have trouble pronouncing words at work. That was 11 years ago, when she was only 45. Although she also had some difficulty skiing that winter, both she and Ron brushed it off. By the next ski season, however, Suzanne couldn't maintain her balance on skis and even had diff...Envisat images delivered to Antarctic eclipse spotters
...lipse, and you can hear her describe it in her own words at a radio report on the Anatarctica 2003 website. The passengers of Kapitan Khlebnikov are spending the next few days on a very busy sightseeing itinerary. The icebreaker leaves the area on 27 November, due to dock at Hobart in Tasmania on 3 Decemb...Brain activity abnormal in children with delayed speech
...ge as they age. Children typically say their first words by age 1 and advance to simple sentences by age 2 or 3. If a 1-year-old child has not made verbal sounds, or if his or her speech is extremely unclear compared with that of children of similar age, then it may be advisable for parents to consult the...Helping teachers use keys to vocabulary building
...t kids from impoverished homes learn, maybe, 3,500 words a year," Bromley said. "Kids from more privileged homes learn about 5,000 words a year. And even if kids move out of the poverty level, their word-learning rate doesn't increase. I...UCF clinic diagnoses rare Foreign Accent Syndrome
...cord onto a cassette tape." He also had her repeat words stressing the wrong syllable in sentences like, "Put the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLABle." The tests enabled Ryalls to analyze Roberts's speech prosody, or the ability to use the appropriate syllable emphasis, and accentuation, which differs in Briti...Better brain imaging helps surgeons avoid damage to language functions
...s patients to remember a list of rapidly presented words with related meanings or similar rhyming patterns....ent nearly a decade using similar lists of related words to study false memories, a phenomenon in which normal cognitive processes cause people to remember t...