News tagged with remembering numbers

Child's 'mental number line' affects memory for numbers

As children in Western cultures grow, they learn to place numbers on a mental number line, with smaller numbers to the left and spaced further apart than the larger numbers on the right. Then the number line changes to become ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast




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Mobile Internet to shine despite dim Facebook IPO

Silicon Valley stars on Wednesday argued that the mobile-focused Internet startups will shine despite the dim stock market debut by leading social network Facebook.

Technology / Business

created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New silicon memory chip developed

(Phys.org) -- The first purely silicon oxide-based 'Resistive RAM' memory chip that can operate in ambient conditions – opening up the possibility of new super-fast memory - has been developed by researchers ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Visualization provides decision-makers with the big picture

The human brain is not very well-equipped for analysing multidimensional data. In his doctoral dissertation, Mikko Berg, M.Sc. (Tech.) examined how graphical visualizations can help people to understand complex data. One ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People praying online are more likely to pray for themselves

People accessing the power of prayer online rather than visiting a church are much more likely to pray for themselves rather than someone they know.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

US tiger shrimp sightings worry scientists

(AP) -- A big increase in reports of Asian tiger shrimp along the U.S. Southeast coast and in the Gulf of Mexico has federal biologists worried the species is encroaching on native species' territory.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google Drive: Watch out, cloud computing in U.S. like 'Wild West'

With the advent of Google Drive, we talk about cloud computing as if the bits and bytes of our lives are stored somewhere up in the air, but, really, the "clouds" are very terrestrial. What's more up in the air are the laws ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple CEO Tim Cook emerges from Steve Jobs' shadow

(AP) -- Apple CEO Tim Cook has long seen as the humorless and unemotional guy running the show from behind the scenes. But he is beginning to reveal a more assertive and eloquent side, hinting that he's learning ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Robots in the classroom

Tore Fløan smiles at me: “In the past we competed with European organizations, but now we have the Chinese breathing down our necks,” he says.

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ravens remember relationships they had with others

In daily life we remember faces and voices of several known individuals. Similarly, mammals have been shown to remember calls and faces of known individuals after a number of years. Markus Boeckle and Thomas ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Getting to the root of genetics

For Manolis Kellis, a deep interest in biology arose partly from an immersion in multiple languages.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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