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·September 24, 2015·4 min read

Computer System Learns Language by Playing Games

Researchers have designed a computer system that learns how to play a text-based computer game with no prior assumptions about how language works.

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·September 23, 2015·5 min read

Robotic Toddler Helps Researchers Confirm Babies Time Their Smiles to Make Mom Smile in Return

Using a toddler like robot, researchers confirm that babies use sophisticated timing when they smile to make the person they are interacting with smile in return.

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·September 15, 2015·5 min read

Unsupervised Computer Learns Spoken Language

A new computer system has learned to distinguish words' phonetic components independent of human training or interaction.

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·September 15, 2015·3 min read

The Benefits of Word Repetition for Infants

According to a new study, toddlers have larger vocabularies when their parents repeat words to them at 7 months old.

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·September 12, 2015·5 min read

Neural Circuit in the Cricket Brain Detects the Rhythm of the Right Mating Call

Researchers have identifies a brain circuit that allows female crickets to automatically identify the chirps of males through rhythmic pulses in their mating calls.

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·August 28, 2015·2 min read

Giving Paralyzed People a Voice

New technology allows paralyzed people and those with locked in syndrome to communicate by using their breath.

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·August 14, 2015·5 min read

Gorillas Moving Closer to Verbal Communication

A new study reports gorillas can learn to control vocalization and breathing patterns which are not typical of their natural repertoire.

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·August 5, 2015·3 min read

Humans and Horses Share Facial Expressions

According to a new study, researchers have discovered horses share some surprisingly similar facial expressions to chimps and humans. The study helps explain how facial expressions can be used as a form of communication.

This is reads "John threw the old tash sitting in the kitchen out". The word out is circled in red.

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·August 5, 2015·5 min read

Words That Work Together Stay Together

Researchers suggest people may modify language to group related words together.

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·August 5, 2015·3 min read

Complex Bonobo Communication is Similar That of Human Infants

A new study reports wild bonobos communicate in a similar manner to human infants, using a high pitched call which requires context in order to be understood.

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·August 4, 2015·5 min read

Weakly Electric Fish Use Oscillatory Receptors to Find Their Neighbors

A new study reports more than 200 species of African fish communicate by means of electrical discharges generated by an organ in their tails.

This is a drawing of a monkey controlling the cursor on a computer monitor. There are waves drawn above the monkey's head to imply that it is using thought to move the cursor.

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·July 31, 2015·6 min read

A Brain Controlled Prosthesis is Almost as Accurate as One Finger Typing

Researchers have developed a technique to make brain controlled prosthetics more precise. A pilot clinical trial of the neuroprosthesis is underway for people with paralysis and ALS.