Animals and human health

Communicating with our pets brings us a lot of positive emotions. And it has been known since ancient times that they also positively affect the health of their masters.

Machine Translates Brain Signals Into Words "Better Than Chance"

US scientists have moved a step closer to developing a mind-reading machine: they wired a man's brain up to a computerized device that helped them to determine at a rate significantly better than chance, which brain signals represented which word he had read from a list. The study is the work of a team based at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and also another researcher from the ...

Exhibit explores assimilation

Every other year, the New London-based Latin Network for the Visual Arts presents a panoramic survey of contemporary art. This year, 57 artists, whose roots begin in countries where romance languages are spoken, were chosen from about 80 who answered the international call to artists.

Scientists Decode Words From Brain Signals

In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath the skull but atop the brain. "We have been able to decode spoken words using only signals from the brain with a device that has promise for long-term use in paralyzed patients who cannot ...

Beyond Words

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