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An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Citation added: November 4th, 2008, 2:17 pm
Having heard several examples of sine-wave speech, your perceptual system has tuned into this form of distortion, so as to be able to perceive new sine-wave speech sentences more clearly.
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The ethics of placebos | Great expectations | The Economist

Citation added: October 30th, 2008, 3:09 pm
Sceptics abound and ethicists frown, but doctors on the front-lines seem likely to continue to experiment with this potentially powerful tool while they wait for science to explain why it works.
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medicine | placebo | brain | neuroscience

Physical decline caused by slow decay of brain's myelin / UCLA Newsroom

Citation added: October 27th, 2008, 3:20 pm
Put another way, after middle age, we start to lose the battle to repair the myelin in our brain, and our motor and cognitive functions begin a long, slow downhill slide.
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brain | neuroscience | health | medicine | ageing

Thinking of Google and Others as an Autonomous Smart Superorganism

Citation added: October 26th, 2008, 6:37 am
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fblogoscoped.com%2Farchive%2F2008-10-26-n33.html
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brain | socialbrain | cloudcomputing | collectiveintelligence

BBC NEWS | Health | Job choice 'affects Alzheimer's'

Citation added: October 24th, 2008, 7:08 pm
Going to university, then choosing a mentally demanding job may help protect the brain from the devastating impact of Alzheimer's disease on memory.
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