News tagged with spatial representation

Do the blind have a more acute sense of smell?

An ongoing study by Mathilde Beaulieu-Lefebvre, a graduate student from the Universite de Montreal Department of Psychology, has debunked the myth that the blind have a more acute sense of smell than the sighted. Vision loss ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Ability to literally imagine oneself in another's shoes may be tied to empathy

New research from Vanderbilt University indicates the way our brain handles how we move through space -- including being able to imagine literally stepping into someone else's shoes -- may be related to how ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3




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Questions about incredible sea turtle migration answered

Immediately after emerging from their underground nests on the lush beaches of eastern Florida, loggerhead sea turtles scramble into the sea and embark alone on a migration that takes them around the entire ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Learned, not innate human intuition: Study finds twist to the story of the number line

Tape measures. Rulers. Graphs. The gas gauge in your car, and the icon on your favorite digital device showing battery power. The number line and its cousins – notations that map numbers onto space and ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Taming uncertainty in climate prediction

(PhysOrg.com) -- Uncertainty just became more certain. Atmospheric and computational researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used a new scientific approach called "uncertainty quantification," ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 22

Measuring how climate models calculate the effects of clouds on Earth's warming

Using ten years of data gathered at three unique measurement sites, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory found that global climate models are not representing ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The emotional historian?

Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, a Gates scholar with an interest in the emotional history of South Africa, explains why the study of society's sentiments can unlock a better understanding of the past.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Climate scientists compute in concert

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are sharing computational resources and expertise to improve the detail and performance of a scientific application code that is the product of one of the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Spanish-language media help shape public policy

Spanish-language media in the United States play a critical role in shaping perceptions of public opinion among Latino voters and public officials of every ethnicity across the country. They also play a far greater advocacy ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gamers on 3-D mission to save world, just don't tell them they are learning cell biology

After growing up on an entertainment diet of X-Men and Xbox, high school and college-age students may find a textbook on cell biology to be a little, well, bland.

Technology / Software

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

To diagnose heart disease, visualization experts recommend a simpler approach

A team of computer scientists, physicists, and physicians at Harvard have developed a simple yet powerful method of visualizing human arteries that may result in more accurate diagnoses of atherosclerosis ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New tool clears the air on cloud simulations

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate models have a hard time representing clouds accurately because they lack the spatial resolution necessary to accurately simulate the billowy air masses.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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