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first-ever psychological study of the power of live

Posted March 7th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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FaceTime, the newly launched marketing body for the live events industry has unveiled the findings from the industry’s first-ever psychological study of the power of live. Using new research techniques, the findings explain how live events work and reveal the unique attributes of going face-to-face with customers as part of a sales and marketing strategy.

Impact of Laptops on Meetings

Posted February 12th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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ABSTRACT
We have conducted a study of meetings to gain an understanding
of how conversation is affected by computer use.
We videotaped five workplace meetings, noting the disruptions
that occurred, and recording people’s disengagements
when they performed tasks with paper or with laptops. We
saw evidence that people preferred these disengagements
not to exceed 10 seconds. When tasks were performed on
laptops, disengagements were more likely to exceed this

Must Electronic Gadgets Disrupt our Face-to-Face Conversations?

Posted February 12th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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EXCERPT:

Over the last century, advances in technology
have massively expanded our choice of
ways to connect to each other. Nevertheless
our original means of communicating –
talking face to face – persists as the most
immediate, natural, and universal means we
have of communicating. Conversing face
to face, we have at our disposal not only the
full richness of our spoken language, but
also a nonverbal vocabulary that includes

Music listening while you learn: No influence of background music on verbal learning

Posted February 11th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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How Music 'Moves' Us: Listeners' Brains Second-Guess the Composer

Posted January 25th, 2010 by parbuckle
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 ScienceDaily (Jan. 16, 2010) — Have you ever accidentally pulled your headphone socket out while listening to music? What happens when the music stops? Psychologists believe that our brains continuously predict what is going to happen next in a piece of music.

Scientists learn how food affects the brain

Posted July 1st, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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In addition to helping protect us from heart disease and cancer, a balanced diet and regular exercise can also protect the brain and ward off mental disorders.

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.

Totaly relaxing

Posted December 21st, 2008 by maarten.vannest...
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If you think relaxation, or even napping at conference should be an accepted best practice, here is news for you.
With a little bit of AV (light and sound) you can now create the best relaxing environment in the world at your conference.
Add one hostess that gently wakes up individuals at the time they wish and the greatest relaxing service at conferences is now ready to welcome the stressed or tired.
A conference venue could even invest in a permanent relax room that with a simple switch of a button can be turned on or off.

Warm feeling inside…

Posted December 21st, 2008 by maarten.vannest...
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People like people more when holding a warm cup of coffee in their hands.

Transformative Theory in Social Research: The Case of the Learning Conference.

Posted March 28th, 2008 by administrator
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Ib Ravn, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorLearning Lab DenmarkThe Danish University of EducationTuborgvej 164DK-2400 Copenhagen NVwww.lld.dk, -email- January 1, 2006, v. 2.0  (An earlier version of this paper was presented to the Danish Sociologists’ Congress,
Roskilde University, Denmark, August 18-20, 2005)
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