2016 Archive

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Latest NewsNovember 28, 2016

 have shown that playing action video games (AVG) can help improve visual acuity.

Sleeping Baby
October 19, 2016

From : How did we, as a species, ever survive? 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ professors  and  who just published a new theory in the  about why babies aren’t born to run.

Jessica Cantlon
September 21, 2016

From : For the second year in a row, Science News is highlighting 10 early- and mid-career scientists on their way to widespread acclaim.

Brain scan figure
August 12, 2016

What does the meaning of a word look like? Researchers have, for the first time, decoded and predicted the brain activity patterns of word meanings within sentences, and successfully predicted what the brain patterns would be for new sentences.

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June 22, 2016

Linguists estimate that by the end of this century, half of the 7,000 languages currently in use around the world will have vanished. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ scholars join the race to document the world’s linguistic diversity before it’s too late.

Video Game Controller
June 14, 2016

Over the past 15 years numerous studies have found that playing action video games such as “Call of Duty” helps cognitive functioning.

Sleeping Baby
May 23, 2016

A new study suggests that human intelligence may have evolved in response to the demands of caring for infants.