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Can't Remember Names? Wear a Computer

Tuesday, July 30, 2002

If you can't remember the names of the people you've beenintroduced to 5 minutes later, wear a computer thatremembers for you. Accenture Technology Labs has created aPersonal Awareness Assistant (PAA) that uses speechrecognition software. It doesn't have a keyboard ormouse--it consists of two wireless microphones, one worn inthe user's ear and...

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Do Video Games Damage the Brain?

Monday, July 15, 2002

A Japanese surgeon claims that video games can damage thebrain. Akio Mori, a cranial nerve specialist at NihonUniversity College of Humanities and Sciences in Tokyo, sayshe?s concerned about the impact of video games on children'sbrains, after he recorded a lack of beta brainwave activityin young people who played them frequently.

He...

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Musicians Have More Gray Matter

Thursday, June 20, 2002

Professional musicians have more gray matter in the part of the brain that processes music. This may explain why some people seem to be born musicians, while the rest of us struggle with piano lessons. But scientists aren?t sure whether some people are born with the extra gray matter, or if it?s developed over years of practicing an instrument...

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Brain Areas Located for Religion, Sense of Self

Tuesday, May 15, 2001

Professor Andrew Newberg, of the University of Pennsylvania, measures prayer. He invites Buddhists and Franciscan nuns to meditate and pray in a secluded room. At the peak of their devotions, he injects a tracer that travels to their brains and reveals brain activity at the moment of transcendence.

He has found that there is a small...

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This Part of Brain Makes Us Human

Friday, February 2, 2001

Everything that makes us "human" is thought to be contained in a part of our brains the size of a billiard ball.Researchers who study the brain say they think they have found the part of it that sets us apart from other primates.

Putting ourselves in others' shoes, or understanding what others may be thinking, is what scientists consider...

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