Saturday, September 18, 2010

Are dying languages worth saving?

Of course they are!! Using nine different languages, delegates at the Trinity College Carmarthen conference explain why it is worth keeping alive dialects that are sometimes only spoken by a handful of people.

Click here to read in full this interesting report.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Brain Speaks: Scientists Decode Words from Brain Signals

In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath the skull but atop the brain.

Click here to read the full study & report at Science Daily

Friday, September 3, 2010

Eye Movements Reveal Readers' Wandering Minds

It’s not just you…everybody zones out when they’re reading. For a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, scientists recorded eye movements during reading and found that the eyes keep moving when the mind wanders—but they don’t move in the same way as they do when you’re paying attention.

Click here to read the full report at Science Daily