Selecting sounds: Imaging study reveals how the brain knows what to listen to
How is it that we are able--without any noticeable effort--to listen to a friend talk in a crowded café or...
Read moreHow is it that we are able--without any noticeable effort--to listen to a friend talk in a crowded café or...
Read moreDespite major brain differences, many species from spiders to humans can recognize and differentiate relative quantities. Adult primates, however, are...
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Read moreMany policies -- from medicine to terrorism -- depend on how the general public accepts and understands scientific evidence. People...
Read moreStudies have suggested that married people are healthier than those who are single, divorced or widowed. A new Carnegie Mellon...
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Read moreUsing a new imaging technique, researchers have confirmed what scientists have always thought to be true: the structural connections in...
Read moreAn international research team led by Carnegie Mellon University has found that when the brain "reads" or decodes a sentence...
Read moreMany consider the political memoir genre to be obsolete since they rarely reveal anything new or noteworthy. However, Carnegie Mellon...
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Read moreA readability analysis of presidential candidate speeches by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI) finds most candidates...
Read moreOver the past decade, mindfulness meditation has been shown to improve a broad range of health and disease outcomes, such...
Read moreFrom the Christian Crusades to the Paris attacks, countless conflicts and acts of violence have been claimed to be the...
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