Brains & minds: sciences of thinking, learning, understanding & reasoning
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Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essenceOn the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies of these three languages are vastly different; many of their rules of grammar diverge too.
Calvin Smith
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33 hours ago
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Into the Uncanny Valley § SEEDMAGAZINE.COMA dead body appears in almost every way to be a normal human. But the pallid skin and empty eyes signal that the person-shaped form we are looking at is, in a way we can’t even fully grasp, strange and disturbing. We feel a similar eeriness when interacting with robots and models that look ...
Calvin Smith
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33 hours ago
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Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brainsTiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London. "Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent," according to Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural ...
JDP
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IPod Therapy for Alzheimer's Patients - WSJ.comOne of the raps on iPods is that users tend to close themselves off from other people and retreat into their own private world. But with stroke and dementia patients, iPods and other MP3 players are having just the opposite effect. Listening to rap and reggae on a borrowed iPod every day ...
alltwinedup
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Revisiting FOXP2 and the origins of language : Not Exactly Rocket ScienceToday, a new paper published in Nature adds another chapter to the story of FOXP2, a gene with important roles in speech and language. The FOXP2 story is a fascinating tale that I covered in New Scientist last year. It's one of the pieces I'm proudest of so I'm reprinting it here with kind ...
Calvin Smith
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8 days ago
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Existential Camouflage | Psychology TodayEach year, American women spend millions (and maybe billions) on beauty products. This number does not include the amount spent on clothing, diet programs, fitness club memberships, and a variety of other efforts to make the body beautiful. Also, using money as a metric does not account for ...
Al Wood
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10 days ago
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Singularity University: Cracking the (Human) CodeThe greatest mysteries yield the biggest opportunities. And for Christopher deCharms, the human brain is the most mysterious thing of all. A neuroscientist specializing in real-time brain imagery, deCharms suggests that the next wave of knowledge, technology and business will come from cracking ...
Hamutal Meridor
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The secret of self-control (The New Yorker)Most of the children were like Craig. They struggled to resist the treat and held out for an average of less than three minutes. “A few kids ate the marshmallow right away,”
soltera
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YOU TUBE
Sing the Periodic TableWant to know an easy way to memorize all 117 elements of the periodic table ? Make up a melody, and sing them! This was done for an extra mark in Chemistry class.Paulina Masson added 12 days ago -
Collective Intelligence & CyberspaceInteresting slides, that “introduce the necessity of a new language that can set a link between the machine process of cyberspace and the uman collective intelligence, which is dynamic, in constant change and made in different languages, from different approaches............
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