News tagged with conceptual knowledge
How we know a dog is a dog: Concept acquisition in the human brain
A new study explores how our brains synthesize concepts that allow us to organize and comprehend the world. The research, published by Cell Press in the September 24th issue of the journal Neuron, uses behavioral and neuroi ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Insects master abstract concepts
An insect's brain is capable of constructing and handling abstract concepts. It can even use two different concepts simultaneously in order to make a decision when faced with a new situation.
May 03, 2012 |
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Deepwater Horizon exposed serious gaps in deepwater oil spill research
(Phys.org) -- On the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a national team of scientists, including two researchers from the University of California, Davis, warns that ...
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Postpone the nuclear waste decision
Although nuclear waste has been produced for a long time, there is still no good way to discard the highly toxic material, which remains hazardous for up to 130 000 years. In his new book titled Nuclear Waste Management and ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Why we've got the cosmological constant all wrong
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some scientists call the cosmological constant the "worst prediction of physics." And when today’s theories give an estimated value that is about 120 orders of magnitude larger than the ...
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Design eye for the science guy: Drop-in clinic helps scientists communicate data
Some of the figures scientists create are stunning. Others are not – mismatched fonts, poorly aligned tables, clashing colors. Many fall somewhere in between. A deluge of data presents a challenge ...
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Even in winter, life persists in Arctic Seas
Despite brutal cold and lingering darkness, life in the frigid waters off Alaska does not grind to a halt in the winter as scientists previously suspected. According to preliminary results from a National ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Southwest pueblo-dwellers key to modern climate policy?
Vulnerability to climate change presents policy challenges to local, state, regional, national and international entities, particularly at a time when the public and policy-makers still struggle conceptually with the complexities ...
Feb 19, 2012 |
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Building a 'blind-friendly' Internet
Rakesh Babu demonstrates how a blind person uses the Internet.
Feb 13, 2012 |
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The developing genome? More than just packaging, the genome affects the way our genes change and develop
Since Charles Darwin first put forth the theory of evolution, scientists have been trying to unlock the mysteries of genetics. But research on the genome — the organism's entire hereditary package encoded in DNA and ...
Feb 13, 2012 |
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Understanding basic concepts in spatial measurement
In a first or second grade classroom, a teacher asks students to take a ruler and measure (in inches) the length of a rectangular block. A student aligns the "0 inch" mark of the ruler with the end of the ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 01, 2012 |
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