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Steve Higgins is sometimes a Psychologist, sometimes a Neuroscientist, and sometimes even a Human Factors Engineer. He works for the U.S. Government. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Psychology.
Category: Language
Straight from Neatorama: A research team at Hebrew University in Israel has developed a computer program that can recognize sarcasm with about 77% accuracy: To create such an algorithm, the team scanned 66,000 Amazon.com product reviews, with three different human annotators tagging sentences for sarcasm. The team then identified certain...
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Category: Language
Well... it looks like ScienceBlogs is now in German - I really wish I could read it! I'm sure it's very interesting though. So now that we've taken over Germany who should be our next conquest be for global domination? We're attempting to take over the world one language at...
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Category: Video
Audio/visual illusion.
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Category: Video
Linguist Steven Pinker visits the Colbert Report....
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Category: Academia
Everyone thinks the printing press led to increased literacy among the average man in the middle ages, but that just might not be the case. Dr Marco Mostert a historian from Utrecht University is instead suggesting that the availability of cheap paper was the main reason more reading material became...
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Category: Psychology
It's kind of hard to imagine a child lying who barely understands language and is even less able to produce something understandable. And babies certainly don't have a very developed theory of mind! But like all areas of developmental psychology the trend is for people to be able to do...
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Category: Academia
Ahh Press Releases.... Don't you just love it when someone who doesn't really give a shit comes up with extremely inane or obvious titles? This time around the titles are come from good ol' EurekAlert. Our first title falls under the duh category: "Brain holds clues to bipolar disorder" Ohh.......
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Category: AI
There are a number of Chatbots out there on the internet. Most of the new variety actually learn words and expressions as users spend time talking with them. The idea is to make them so advanced that they can actually fool people into thinking they are talking to another person...
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Category: Animals
A brand new discovery in doggy linguistics - Asymmetric tail-wagging.
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Category: Biology
Ok just kidding but you should really read this funny post from the Language Log mocking a Washington Post article about spear use in chimps. The Original: Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small mammals...
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