<< I'd like to apologise to the lady I just called by mistake saying 'Hello, is this planet Earth?' - not a prank call...just a wrong number! >>
3:04 PM - 24 Dec 2015
https://mobile.twitter.com/astro_timpeake/status/680162260946423808
sabato 26 dicembre 2015
giovedì 24 dicembre 2015
# s-trade-behav: "harbinger of failure" (human) scanners
<< (..) customers, termed “Harbingers of failure,” who systematically purchase new products that flop. Their early adoption of a new product is a strong signal that a product will fail—the more they buy, the less likely the product will succeed >>
Eric Anderson, Song Lin, et al. Harbingers of Failure. Journal of Marketing Research, 2015; 52 (5): 580 DOI: 10.1509/jmr.13.0415
http://journals.ama.org/doi/10.1509/jmr.13.0415
http://news.mit.edu/2015/harbinger-failure-consumers-unpopular-products-1223
mercoledì 23 dicembre 2015
# s-brain: subjectiveness can override reality in learned maze navigation environments
<< the activity patterns in the parietal regions reflect participants' expectations even when they are wrong, demonstrating that subjective belief can override objective reality >>
<< view expectation is subjectively represented in human brain, and the fronto-parietal network is involved in integrating external cues and prior knowledge during spatial navigation >>
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/ku-mab122215.php
Yumi Shikauchi, Shin Ishii. Decoding the view expectation during learned maze navigation from human fronto-parietal network. Scientific Reports, 2015; 5: 17648 DOI: 10.1038/srep17648
# s-evol: the role of Ediacarans on the evolution of others
<< The fossil group called the Ediacaran biota have been troubling researchers for a long time >>
In this study the Ediacaran biota << played an enabling role in bilaterian evolution similar to that proposed for the Savannah environment for human evolution and bipedality >>
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=159128&CultureCode=en
Graham E. Budd, Soren Jensen. The origin of the animals and a ‘Savannah’ hypothesis for early bilaterian evolution. Biological Reviews, 2015; DOI: 10.1111/brv.12239
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12239/abstract
# rmx-n-it-s-behav: vacanze di Natale (!)
# s-tech: DNA as a nano transistor
<< As electronics get smaller they are becoming more difficult and expensive to manufacture, but DNA-based devices could be designed from the bottom-up using directed self-assembly techniques such as ‘DNA origami’ >>
http://www.kurzweilai.net/will-this-dna-molecular-switch-replace-conventional-transistors
Juan Manuel Artés, Yuanhui Li, et al. Conformational gating of DNA conductance. Nature Communications, 2015; 6: 8870 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9870
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151209/ncomms9870/full/ncomms9870.html
# s-lang: the turn-taking system
<< (..) humans may have inherited a primate turn-taking system. This may have started out as a gestural form of communication, as with the other great apes, then later (about 1 million years ago) became one primarily expressed through the vocal channel >>
http://www.mpg.de/9798302/human-communication-turntaking
<< The bulk of language usage is conversational, involving rapid exchange of turns. New information about the turn-taking system shows that this transition between speakers is generally more than threefold faster than language encoding. To maintain this pace of switching, participants must predict the content and timing of the incoming turn and begin language encoding as soon as possible, even while still processing the incoming turn. This intensive cognitive processing has been largely ignored by the language sciences because psycholinguistics has studied language production and comprehension separately from dialog >>
Stephen C. Levinson. Turn-taking in Human Communication – Origins and Implications for Language Processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2015; DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.10.010
http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/abstract/S1364-6613(15)00276-4
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