Electric fish pause before sharing something particularly meaningful. Pauses also prime the sensory systems to receive new and important information, according to research from Washington University in St. Louis. The study reveals an underlying mechanism for how pauses allow neurons in the midbrain to recover from stimulation.
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IMAGE: Early online support for the Boogaloos, one of the groups implicated in the January 2021 attack on the United States Capitol, followed the same mathematical pattern as ISIS, despite the. view more
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WASHINGTON (May 19, 2021) Early online support for the Boogaloos, one of the groups implicated in the January 2021 attack on the United States Capitol, followed the same mathematical pattern as ISIS, despite the stark ideological, geographical and cultural differences between their forms of extremism. That s the conclusion of a new study published today by researchers at the George Washington University. This study helps provide a better understanding of the emergence of extremist movements in the U.S. and worldwide, Neil Johnson, a professor of physics at GW, said. By identifying hidden common patterns in what seem to be completely unrelated movements, topped with a rigorous mathematical description of how they develop, our finding
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How people consume news and take actions based on what they read, hear or see, is different than how human brains process other types of information on a daily basis, according to researchers at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. While the current state of the newspaper industry is in flux, these journalism experts discovered people still love reading newspapers, and they believe a newspaper s physical layout and structure could help curators of digital news platforms enhance their users experiences. Many people still love print newspapers, and to an extent, we also see that they like the digital replicas of print newspapers as much as they do the physical version, said Damon Kiesow, a professor of journalism professions and co-author on the study. But we believe there is more to understanding this notion than just simply habit and experience. We feel newspapers are fulfilling some sort of need in a person s daily life that is not currently being effect
The missing link that helped our ancestors to begin communicating with each other through language may have been iconic sounds, rather than charades-like gestures - giving rise to the unique human power to coin new words describing the world around us, a new study reveals.