Neuroscience
BzzzPeek -- international onomatopoeia using sound recordings from native speakers imitating the sounds of animals [flash & sound required]
- Walking Cane Reveals Dramatic Sensory Re-mapping By The Brain
There is a force-field like zone around our bodies, known as peripersonal space, in which our brains integrate information across the senses. For example, we have individual neurons that respond when we sense touch and sound occurring in the same place,...
- Sound Aids Visual Learning
The use of sound during visual training can enhance later performance on a purely visual task, a finding that demonstrates just how much multisensory interaction occurs in brain areas that before now were thought to be dedicated solely to vision. Aaron...
- Seeing Sound
The Talking Books librarian blogs about an article at the BBC about software which helps the deaf to "see" sound. Using the newly-developed software Lumisonic, sound is represented by moving rings which radiate, and change depending on the pitch, volume,...
- Native Speakers Of Russian Needed For Language Study!
Research Participants Native Speakers of Russian Study Center for Advanced Study of Language University of Maryland Description: CASL (Center for Advanced Study of Language) are recruiting native speakers of Russian to participate in a language study....
- Native Mandarin Chinese Speakers Needed For Paid Language Study!
Mandarin Chinese Study Researchers from the University of Maryland are looking for native speakers of Mandarin Chinese for a paid language study. The study involves making judgments about the pronunciation of a set of Mandarin words produced by English...
Neuroscience
BzzzPeek!
BzzzPeek -- international onomatopoeia using sound recordings from native speakers imitating the sounds of animals [flash & sound required]
- Walking Cane Reveals Dramatic Sensory Re-mapping By The Brain
There is a force-field like zone around our bodies, known as peripersonal space, in which our brains integrate information across the senses. For example, we have individual neurons that respond when we sense touch and sound occurring in the same place,...
- Sound Aids Visual Learning
The use of sound during visual training can enhance later performance on a purely visual task, a finding that demonstrates just how much multisensory interaction occurs in brain areas that before now were thought to be dedicated solely to vision. Aaron...
- Seeing Sound
The Talking Books librarian blogs about an article at the BBC about software which helps the deaf to "see" sound. Using the newly-developed software Lumisonic, sound is represented by moving rings which radiate, and change depending on the pitch, volume,...
- Native Speakers Of Russian Needed For Language Study!
Research Participants Native Speakers of Russian Study Center for Advanced Study of Language University of Maryland Description: CASL (Center for Advanced Study of Language) are recruiting native speakers of Russian to participate in a language study....
- Native Mandarin Chinese Speakers Needed For Paid Language Study!
Mandarin Chinese Study Researchers from the University of Maryland are looking for native speakers of Mandarin Chinese for a paid language study. The study involves making judgments about the pronunciation of a set of Mandarin words produced by English...