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Psychology & Psychiatry

Emotion in voices helps capture the listener's attention, but in the long run the words are not remembered as accurately

Does the emotion in our voice have a lasting effect? According to Annett Schirmer and colleagues from the National University of Singapore, emotion helps us recognize words quicker and more accurately straight away. In the ...

Dec 11, 2012

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Neuroscience

Hippocampus plays bigger memory role than previously thought

Human memory has historically defied precise scientific description, its biological functions broadly but imperfectly defined in psychological terms. In a pair of papers published in the November 2 issue of The Journal of ...

Nov 1, 2011

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Psychology & Psychiatry

Practice makes perfect: Competitive Scrabble players push the boundaries of accepted visual word recognition

Word recognition behavior can be fine-tuned by experience and practice, according to a new study by Ian Hargreaves and colleagues from the University of Calgary in Canada. Their work shows, for the first time, that it is ...

Aug 16, 2011

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Emotion in voices helps capture the listener's attention, but in the long run the words are not remembered as accurately

Hippocampus plays bigger memory role than previously thought

Practice makes perfect: Competitive Scrabble players push the boundaries of accepted visual word recognition

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