January 2009
5 posts
Bird Song Discoveries May Lead To Refinement Of... →
“The ubiquity of frontal lobe damage in the cases studies supports the hypothesis...”
– Neurophilosophy : The delusional brain
Phonological typicality influences on-line... →
Since Saussure, the relationship between the sound and the meaning of words has been regarded as largely arbitrary. Here, however, we show that a probabilistic relationship exists between the sound of a word and its lexical category. Corpus analyses of nouns and verbs indicate that the phonological properties of the individual words in these two lexical categories form relatively separate and...
Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss -... →
In the new issue of Nature, the neuroscientist Larry Young offers a grand unified theory of love. After analyzing the brain chemistry of mammalian pair bonding — and, not incidentally, explaining humans’ peculiar erotic fascination with breasts — Dr. Young predicts that it won’t be long before an unscrupulous suitor could sneak a pharmaceutical love potion into your drink.
That’s the bad news....
Top 11 compounds in US drinking water →