Reality and illusion in magpie-lark song-and-dance duets
A new study shows Australian magpie-larks may use a ventriloquial illusion to make their vocal duets more threatening.
A new study shows Australian magpie-larks may use a ventriloquial illusion to make their vocal duets more threatening.
Plants & Animals
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Children who suddenly appear to lose the thread of an otherwise obvious conversation often do so because they cannot combine two key communicative skills until surprisingly late in their development, researchers have found.
Education
Jun 30, 2022
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A team of researchers working at the University of Chicago has found a way to use sound waves to model a system for rotational dynamics of inertial many-particle clustering. In their paper published in the journal Physical ...
New research published this week by University of New Mexico archeologist Keith Prufer shows that a site in Belize was critical in studying the origins of the ancient Maya people and the spread of maize as a staple food. ...
Archaeology
Mar 22, 2022
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The perception of gender in children's voices is of special interest to researchers, because voices of young boys and girls are very similar before the age of puberty. Adult male and female voices are often quite different ...
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2021
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Previous study results have suggested that people generally comprehend and evaluate the pronunciation of a speaker less well if they suspect that the speaker is ethnically foreign. However, a new study by Dr. Adriana HanulĂková, ...
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2021
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Japan, has found that cats keep track of where people are in their homes even when they cannot see them. In their paper published in PLOS ONE, the group describes ...
No language has words for all the blues of a wind-churned sea or the greens and golds of a wildflower meadow in late summer. Globally, different languages have divvied up the world of color using their own set of labels, ...
Social Sciences
Sep 23, 2021
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As electronic devices decrease in size, their component parts, like speakers, need to shrink as well.
General Physics
Aug 31, 2021
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In a finding that runs contrary to one of the most-cited studies in the field, a new research paper from University of Kansas linguists shows that even as beginners, adults can quickly begin mentally processing sentence structures ...
Education
Jun 25, 2021
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