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One of the thing I hate most about living in a big city is the noise from road traffic. The most disturbing types of noise for me are (in order of irritation): 1) motorbike noise 2) emergency noise 3) noise from construction/demolition activites In addition of being very unpleasant and harmful for our hearing system, noise can have negative impact on general health. For example, Swedish researchers have found that the exposure to even relatively low levels of noise may increase increase the risk of cardiovascular disease , heart attack and high blood pressure. Even though we...

Spatial aspects of bodily self-consciousness. Conscious Cogn. 2008 Dec 22; Authors: Lenggenhager B, Mouthon M, Blanke O Visual, somatosensory, and perspectival cues normally provide congruent information about where the self is experienced. Separating those cues by virtual reality techniques, recent studies found that self-location was systematically biased to where a visual-tactile...

Functional network reorganization during learning in a brain-computer interface paradigm. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 2008 Dec 1; Authors: Jarosiewicz B, Chase SM, Fraser GW, Velliste M, Kass...

The current issue of Science has a special section on the use of technology in education. I found particularly interesting the article by Chris Dede about the potential offered by immersive...