Dartmouth professor finds prescription drug advertising 'walks a communications tightrope'
...nd other non-verbal signals such as music, written words and body language. "I found an intense switching and fusing of styles," says Glinert. "The overall function of the commercials was a blend of promotional, informational and aesthetic. It was a strange combination at times when risk messages were com...Swedish researchers first in the world to gain access to BIMS
... in the area," says Professor Litton. "So in other words they can search in English in all databanks and get comprehensible responses."...Boston University psychologists find neurological mechanism for subliminal learning
...influenced by a stimulus they are unaware of, like words played back below the threshold of hearing or images flashed on screen faster than the eye can perceive. Watanabe's recent findings grew out of his team's previous work in which they established that subliminal learning is real and that the brain is...Researchers largely at fault for health risk studies that influence and confuse the public
...are most affected by journal articles that include words like 'risk' that even some of us working in research are not accurately defining," David J. Kupfer, M.D., the Thomas P. Detre Professor and chairman of the department of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, told his colleagu...The anatomy of sarcasm: Researchers reveal how the brain handles this complex communication
...asm" that explains how the mind puts sharp-tongued words into context. The findings appear in the May issue of Neuropsychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA). The Israeli psychologists who conducted the research explain that for sarcasm to score, listeners must grasp the spea......nd advertisers, researchers have found that visual words can influence the perception of smells--with pleasant words influencing olfactory brain regions to perceive an odor as pleasant. The research is publishing in t...Younger is better when implanting cochlear implants, IU study finds
...h perception -- their ability to understand spoken words -- than did those who received the implants later. "Not only is earlier better, but we found that language gains tended to be faster for children who received cochlear implants earlier in life," said Dr. Svirsky. However, children implanted before th...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...hips and address issues they can't cope with using words alone. To assess whether there is strong evidence to support this claim, a tam of Cochrane Review Authors looked at four studies that met their stringent inclusion criteria. Each study compared standard care with standard care augmented by music ther...Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
...ntial ramifications of CP are best captured in the words of one individual whom we have had the opportunity to test: 'I have always been a rather extreme introvert, uncomfortable in groups of people and in social activities. I sort of tend to want to be a hermit. However, I find it relaxing to go window-sh...