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• How we decode 'noisy' language in daily life: How people rationally interpret linguistic input
• Reading wordless storybooks to toddlers may expose them to richer language
• More evidence suggests eating omega 3s and avoiding meat, dairy linked to preserving memory
• U. S. children born outside the United States have lower risk of allergic disease
• Key shift in brain that creates drive to overeat identified
• Extreme political attitudes may stem from an illusion of understanding
• Engaging online crowds in the classroom could be important tool for teaching innovation
• Will green tea help you lose weight?
• Leadership emerges spontaneously during games
• Grocery delivery service is greener than driving to the store
• Do you fear you are missing out?
• Visitors and residents: Students' attitudes to academic use of social media
• Rear seat design: A priority for children's safety in cars

How we decode 'noisy' language in daily life: How people rationally interpret linguistic input Posted: 29 Apr 2013 01:49 PM PDT Suppose you hear someone say, "The man gave the ice cream the child." Does that sentence seem plausible? Or do you assume it is missing a word? Such as: "The man gave the ice cream to the child." People use an array of strategies to make sense of confusing statements.

Reading wordless storybooks to toddlers may expose them to richer language Posted: 29 Apr 2013 01:48 PM PDT Researchers have found that children hear more complex language from parents when they read a storybook with only pictures compared to a picture-vocabulary book.

More evidence suggests eating omega 3s and avoiding meat, dairy linked to preserving memory Posted: 29 Apr 2013 01:46 PM PDT A UAB study suggests that the Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes consuming foods that contain omega-3 fatty acids found in fish, chicken and salad dressing, and avoiding saturated fats, meat and dairy foods, may be linked to preserving memory and thinking abilities.

U. S. children born outside the United States have lower risk of allergic disease Posted: 29 Apr 2013 01:46 PM PDT A new study suggests children living the in the United States but born outside the U.S. have a lower prevalence of allergic disease that increases after residing in the United States for one decade.

Key shift in brain that creates drive to overeat identified Posted: 29 Apr 2013 12:42 PM PDT Neuroscientists have identified a cellular change in the brain that accompanies obesity. The findings could explain the body's tendency to maintain undesirable weight levels, rather than an ideal weight, and identify possible targets for pharmacological efforts to address obesity. The study identifies a mechanism for the body's ongoing tendency to return to the heavier weight.

Extreme political attitudes may stem from an illusion of understanding Posted: 29 Apr 2013 10:05 AM PDT Having to explain how a political policy works leads people to express less extreme attitudes toward the policy, according to new research.

Engaging online crowds in the classroom could be important tool for teaching innovation Posted: 29 Apr 2013 10:05 AM PDT Online crowds can be an important tool for teaching the ins and outs of innovation, educators say, even when the quality of the feedback provided by online sources doesn't always match the quantity.

Will green tea help you lose weight? Posted: 29 Apr 2013 08:47 AM PDT Green tea extract in tandem with an additional compound could be effective for body weight control and type 2 diabetes, a new study in mice indicates. Evidence has shown that green tea extract may be an effective herbal remedy useful for weight control and helping to regulate glucose in type 2 diabetes.

Leadership emerges spontaneously during games Posted: 29 Apr 2013 07:24 AM PDT Video game and augmented-reality game players can spontaneously build virtual teams and leadership structures without special tools or guidance, according to researchers.

Grocery delivery service is greener than driving to the store Posted: 29 Apr 2013 06:51 AM PDT Engineers have found that using a grocery delivery service can cut carbon dioxide emissions by at least half when compared with individual household trips to the store. Trucks filled to capacity that deliver to customers clustered in neighborhoods produced the most savings in carbon dioxide emissions.

Do you fear you are missing out? Posted: 29 Apr 2013 06:49 AM PDT Does checking Twitter and Facebook to see what your friends are up to make you feel like you are missing out on all the fun? Researchers have come up with a way of measuring the modern day concept of the "fear of missing out" (FoMO).

Visitors and residents: Students' attitudes to academic use of social media Posted: 29 Apr 2013 06:49 AM PDT Research has shown that university students behave very differently when using social media as part of their academic learning.

Rear seat design: A priority for children's safety in cars Posted: 29 Apr 2013 06:46 AM PDT New report recommends technology, policy changes to better protect older children and adolescents in crashes.

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