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Listening To Music Can Change The Way You Judge Facial Emotions

Posted May 16th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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ScienceDaily (May 7, 2009) — It is often said that music is the language of emotions. Simply, we are moved by music. But can these musically induced emotions arising through the auditory sense influence our interpretation of emotions arising through other senses (eg visual)?
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Effects Of Brain Exercise Depend On Opponent

Posted May 16th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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ScienceDaily  — Playing games against a computer activates different brain areas from those activated when playing against a human opponent. New research has shown that the belief that one is playing against a virtual opponent has significant effects on activation patterns in the brain.

How Your Brain Deciphers Cocktail Party Banter

Posted May 16th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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ScienceDaily  — Anyone who has tried to carry on a conversation in a roomful of talkers knows how difficult it can be to concentrate on what one person is saying while tuning everyone else out.

Read My Lips: Using Multiple Senses In Speech Perception

Posted May 16th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 13, 2009) — When someone speaks to you, do you see what they are saying? We tend to think of speech as being something we hear, but recent studies suggest that we use a variety of senses for speech perception - that the brain treats speech as something we hear, see and even feel.

In a new report in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologist Lawrence Rosenblum describes research examining how our different senses blend together to help us perceive speech.

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