News tagged with semantic representations

Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading

Most people are expert readers, but it is something of an enigma that our brain can achieve expertise in such a recent cultural invention, which lies at the interface between vision and language. Given that the first alphabetic ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1




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Rensselaer team shows how to analyze raw government data

Who is the White House’s most frequent visitor? Which White House staffer has the most visitors? How do smoking quit rates, state by state, relate to unemployment, taxes, and violent crimes? How do politics influence ...

Technology / Internet

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Making the invisible visible: Verbal -- not visual -- cues enhance visual detection

Cognitive psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of California have shown that an image displayed too quickly to be seen by an observer can be detected if the participant first hears the name of the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Facebook for scientists'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University has received more than $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to collaborate on a $12.2 million, seven-university project designed to network researchers around ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Software: running commentary for smarter surveillance?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cutting-edge surveillance software that automatically detects human motion, behaviour and facial expressions, generates a running commentary of what?s happening and re-enacts events virtually ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Nouns and verbs are learned in different parts of the brain

Two Spanish psychologists and a German neurologist have recently shown that the brain that activates when a person learns a new noun is different from the part used when a verb is learnt. The scientists observed ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Scientists crack brain's codes for noun meanings

Two hundred years ago, archaeologists used the Rosetta Stone to understand the ancient Egyptian scrolls. Now, a team of Carnegie Mellon University scientists has discovered the beginnings of a neural Rosetta ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 13, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Facebook for scientists: Map your expertise

(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University has received more than $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to collaborate on a $12.2 million, seven-university project designed to network researchers around ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Triple Space' offers web for web services

(PhysOrg.com) -- What the World Wide Web is to humans, the Triple Space could become for machines, say European researchers who have helped lay the foundations for this innovative integration of web services, semantic web ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Is it e-government's saviour? An automatic knowledge filter

(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative new knowledge management concept has the potential to revolutionise the way government administrators work.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists reaching consensus on how brain processes speech

Neuroscientists feel they are much closer to an accepted unified theory about how the brain processes speech and language, according to a scientist at Georgetown University Medical Center who first laid the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0


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