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Rodents recognize objects using sophisticated perceptive strategies Sight is such a spontaneous activity that we are unaware of the complexity of the brain mechanisms it implies. For instance, we easily recognize objects, which appear to look always the same, without realizing that we observe them from ever-changing points of view and that their image – the luminance profile cast onto the retina –varies significantly each time we look at them. To maintain such "invariance" in the...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online From time immemorial, humans have grappled to understand the slippery notion of time, often drawing on familiar metaphors of physical motion such as “time flies” or “time marches on.” When Einstein published his paper on special relativity in 1905, he forever fused the notions of space and time into a single, mind-boggling, yet mathematically elegant, concept known as spacetime. Now, new research on the human brain suggests...
SAN FRANCISCO and TORONTO, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Achievers, the leader in social employee recognition software, today announced Einstein, the latest product offering featuring new tools to drive Employee Success. This new release includes updates for both managers and HR professionals including powerful analytics, seamless integrations, engagement visibility, and manager support to more effectively engage the workforce and track progress towards workplace objectives. (Logo:...
[Watch Video: Tactile Conditioning And Movement Analysis Of Honey Bees] April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In the early 1900s, Ivan Pavlov discovered the conditioned response, using a ringing bell and food to trigger salivation in dogs. Pavlov would ring a bell (among other stimuli) and then deliver food to the dog. The food caused the dog to salivate. After a time, Pavlov noticed that when he rang the bell, the dog started to salivate even before the food was...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online By moving their facial whiskers back and forth about eight times a second to locate objects in their environment, rats use a sense that humans don’t: whisking. Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, however, have set out to learn whether humans could acquire this sense with practice, and if so, what could understanding the process of adaptation tell us about our normal senses? To investigate this...
NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lonza, a global leader in the life sciences industry, is pleased to announce the launch of Alomune, a safe, daily immune supplement made with natural extracts from the renewable Minnesota Larch Tree that optimize the body's immune response to help people stay healthy. "We are extremely pleased to introduce Alomune to the market," said Marshall Fong, Director of Consumer Marketing for Lonza. "Unlike many other immune products currently...
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online We’ve all heard the expression, “One hand washes the other”. But according to a recent study, we are learning that an action such as this, or even a mundane task, performed by an estimated 54 percent of Americans daily, such as drinking a cup of coffee, involves a complex set of decisions that our brain must make, often times while hiding the entirety of the decision-making process from us. In the coffee example, your eyes,...
WESTBURY, N.Y., Aug. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Motivators Inc., a leading promotional products distributor, ranked on Counselor magazine's "Best Places to Work" list for a third year. Being named to the list signifies that Motivators is one of the 85 best companies to work for within the industry. According to Counselor, to create the list, more than 4,000 ad specialty employees were surveyed by research partner Quantum Workplace. Counselor editor Andy Cohen revealed that the...
Though the seconds may tick by on the clock at a regular pace, our experience of the ‘fourth dimension’ is anything but uniform. When we’re waiting in line or sitting in a boring meeting, time seems to slow down to a trickle. And when we get caught up in something completely engrossing – a gripping thriller, for example – we may lose sense of time altogether. But what about the idea that time flies when we’re having fun? New research from psychological science suggests that the...
NEW YORK, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- This week's Photo Challenge -CLOSE- is particularly interesting because it focuses on a theme that can be interpreted in several ways. "Close" could be all the things Sara mentioned in the WP post; a feeling, proximity, people, places, and objects. It could also be the ending, unfolding, deciding on a new direction to take, shifting winds, or even the completion or closure of a phase in our lives. When things are up close, we get a chance...
