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Study shows how judgment of sensory simultaneity may develop in the brain

By Guest PostSeptember 20, 2016Scienceautism disorders, brain, language deficits, senses of vision, sensory inputs

In a study using tadpoles, neuroscientists tracked how the brain develops its sense of whether two sensory inputs — for example, vision and touch — happened at the same time.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Most people encounter most things by sensing them in multiple ways. As we hear the words people speak, we also see their lips move. We smell, see and hear the onions as we chop them — and we feel them with teary eyes. (more…)

How well do facial recognition algorithms cope with a million strangers?

By Guest PostSeptember 15, 2016Scienceaaron nech, facial recognition algorithms, ira kemelmacher-shlizerman, megaface challenge, n techlab, russia

In the last few years, several groups have announced that their facial recognition systems have achieved near-perfect accuracy rates, performing better than humans at picking the same face out of the crowd. (more…)

Brit accents vex U.S. hearing-impaired elderly

By Guest PostSeptember 13, 2016Health, Sciencebrit accents, caroline champougny, neurolinguist, older americans, sarah hargus ferguson, transgender voices

Other studies: Transgender voices, anger and fast-talking women

Older Americans with some hearing loss shouldn’t feel alone if they have trouble understanding British TV sagas like “Downton Abbey.” A small study from the University of Utah suggests hearing-impaired senior citizens have more trouble than young people comprehending British accents when there is background noise. (more…)

People favour expressive, communicative robots over efficient, effective ones

By Guest PostSeptember 10, 2016Science, Technologyadriana hamacher, bert2, bristol robotics laboratory, communicative robots, humanoid robot, polystyrene eggs

Making an assistive robot partner expressive and communicative is likely to make it more satisfying to work with and lead to users trusting it more, even if it makes mistakes, a new UCL-led study suggests. (more…)

Wooden breast chickens

By Guest PostSeptember 7, 2016Sciencebehnam abasht, broiler chickens, calcium, marie mutryndisease, tissue cells, wooden breast chickens, wooden breast syndrome

UD researchers investigate wooden breast in broiler chickens

Wooden breast syndrome can affect broiler chickens, making the meat hard and chewy, rendering the birds unmarketable. Although it poses no threat to human health, wooden breast can cause significant economic losses for growers, who sometimes see the disease in up to half their flocks. (more…)

Researchers Gear Up Galaxy-seeking Robots for a Test Run

By Guest PostSeptember 6, 2016Sciencedesi project, galaxy seeking robots, illuminated fiducials, joe silber, parker fagrelius, protodesi

Berkeley Lab-assembled ‘ProtoDESI’ to serve as model for planned array of 5,000 robots wielding fiber-optic cables.

A prototype system, designed as a test for a planned array of 5,000 galaxy-seeking robots, is taking shape at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). (more…)

What lies beneath Connecticut? Yale’s SEISConn project will find out

By Guest PostSeptember 4, 2016Scienceconnecticut, geology, google earth, juan aragon, maureen long, seisconn project, seismometer, wilson cycle, yale geophysicist

Deep inside Great Mountain Forest, in the northwest corner of the state, Yale geophysicist Maureen Long kneels down in a grassy clearing to see how her seismology station fared over the long winter. (more…)

Why people help distant kin

By Guest PostSeptember 4, 2016Scienceanthropologist, doug jones, hamiltons rule, mathematical simulations, socially enforced nepotis, university of utah

Math simulations support theory of ‘socially enforced nepotism’

It’s easy to understand why natural selection favors people who help close kin at their own expense: It can increase the odds the family’s genes are passed to future generations. But why assist distant relatives? Mathematical simulations by a University of Utah anthropologist suggest “socially enforced nepotism” encourages helping far-flung kin. (more…)

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