News articles tagged with 'gesture'
Gesturing while talking helps change your thoughts
— 6 Jan 2011 14:56 | HealthSometimes it's almost impossible to talk without using your hands. These gestures seem to be important to how we think. They provide a visual clue to our thoughts and, a new theory…
From handwritten CAPTCHAs to 'smart rooms,' tech solutions start with pattern recognition
— 15 Oct 2010 12:44 | TechnologyBuy something online, enter your credit card number and mailing address. Simple. Then you come to the box with the CAPTCHA, the Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers…
A sing-song way to a cure for speech disorder
— 5 Oct 2010 03:46 | HealthHindustani singing, a North Indian traditional style of singing, and classical singing, such as the music of Puccini, Mozart and Wagner, vary greatly in technique and sound. Now, speech-language…
Signal like you mean it
— 18 Jun 2010 13:35 | BiologyGreat ape gestures have intentional meaning and are made with the expectation of specific behavioural responses, according to Erica Cartmill and Richard Byrne from the University of…
In brain-injured children, early gesturing predicts language delays
— 25 Mar 2010 12:01 | HealthAbout 1 in 4,000 infants has a brain injury known as pre- or perinatal brain lesions, mainly as a result of stroke, with risk factors involving both mothers and babies. Children with…
Speech and gesture mutually interact to enhance comprehension
— 6 Jan 2010 10:11 | HealthYour mother may have taught you that it's rude to point, but according to new research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, gesturing may…
Right-handed chimpanzees provide clues to the origin of human language
— 16 Nov 2009 10:45 | BiologyMost of the linguistic functions in humans are controlled by the left cerebral hemisphere. A study of captive chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Centre (Atlanta, Georgia),…
Second Life data offers window into how trends spread
— 3 Jul 2009 02:35 | HealthDo friends wear the same style of shoe or see the same movies because they have similar tastes, which is why they became friends in the first place? Or once a friendship is established,…
3-year-olds get the point
— 6 Apr 2009 15:00 | BiologyDogs and small children who share similar social environments appear to understand human gestures in comparable ways, according to Gabriella Lakatos from Eoetvoes University in Budapest,…
Wag the Robot? Brown scientists build robot that responds to human gestures
— 11 Mar 2009 13:10 | TechnologyImagine a day when you turn to your own personal robot, give it a task and then sit down and relax, confident that your robot is doing exactly what you wanted it to do…