Merzenich first realized how malleable the brain is in a series of experiments in the mid-1980s.
He therefore decided to conduct a series of experiments with waxed and unwaxed skis.
In a series of experiments, they found that Chinese investors overwhelmingly described themselves as more cautious than Americans.
As my friend Reuven Brenner has taught me, history is a series of experiments: The Human Gamble.
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Psychologists Nicole Mead and Jon Maner ran a series of experiments to unpick this counter-intuitive tendency.
They performed a series of experiments on 36 people - an even split of those in their twenties and their seventies.
Mr. NYHAN: Well, the backfire effect we're talking about in the series of experiments that we did, we only found among conservatives.
Dr Bell conducted a series of experiments, such as depriving infants of food for a time before returning them to their carers.
In a series of experiments with mice, he and his colleagues found that drug-resistant patients actually had elevated (not lower) levels of androgen receptors.
Harvard neuroscientist Diana Tamir and her Harvard colleague Jason Mitchell conducted a series of experiments to explore why people like to talk about themselves.
In a series of experiments, he found that as foods he was cooking warmed up, the spiral sides directed the flow in a concentric movement.
"I will be doing a whole series of experiments, " he explained.
In the past year Snyder's lab has conducted a series of experiments that suggest D-serine acts in concert with glutamate to stimulate nerve cells to fire.
Professors Roger Buehler from Simon Fraser University and colleagues designed a series of experiments to see if he could help people to improve their planning ability.
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In the past year his lab has conducted a series of experiments that suggest that D-serine acts in concert with glutamate to stimulate nerve cells to fire.
For the NFL, the Sprint phone-casts are part of a series of experiments with digital media aimed at discerning how fans will consume football in the future.
In this vein, researchers conducted a series of experiments to determine if people were more successful in negotiations that happened in their own offices than in unfamiliar locations.
His ten-person team of researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has battled Kandel to a draw by producing, in a dramatic series of experiments, fruit flies with photographic memory.
In the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Bernd Heinrich and Thomas Bugnyar of the University of Vermont, in Burlington, describe a series of experiments they have carried out on ravens.
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In addition to testing the system to detect fingerprints, the research team did a series of experiments in which they tested the same fingerprint on the same surface every day for 14 days.
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The rest came from a long series of experiments that created the ecosystem effects it desired. iTunes originally allowed consumers to play CDs and rip them to mp3s to be played on their iMac.
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Sarah Smith of the University of Bristol and Kimberley Scharf of Warwick University recently carried out a series of experiments for the Treasury to gauge how sensitive higher-rate taxpayers are to changes in tax incentives.
To suss out the characteristics of the most-compelling television ads, Harvard Business School professor Thales Teixeira conducted a series of experiments, in conjunction with the MIT Media Lab and Affectiva, a local emotion-tracking software company.
Through a series of experiments with college and graduate students, which are detailed in the paper, Gino and Margolis set out to induce individuals to focus on either promotion or prevention via a series of situational cues.
So for his Ignite NYC talk, he performed a series of experiments to find just what sorts of obscuring techniques can defeat a common facial recognition algorithm known as Eigenfaces, testing an off-the-shelf implementation of that algorithm in a program called Neurotechnology.
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Using a series of experiments on both business executives and a random selection of adults, Brescoll et al found that after the fact, firms that conveyed an empathetic, responsibility-taking message ended up losing much less public trust than those taking more defensive or noncommittal stances.
The team conducted a series of experiments in which known quantities of five such chemicals were mixed with water and passed through a dishwasher, a washing machine, a shower head inside a shower stall or a tap in a bath, all inside a specially designed chamber.
We are seeing a series of experiments with different MMO monetization models at present, but all have the same problem: games which cost as much as or more than a full-sized game are hard to fund with a model best applied to small, repetitive mobile and social games.
After a series of experiments involving various numbers of electrodes and various frequencies of stimulation, they have found that using an array of 25 electrodes and a stimulation rate of 50 pulses a second produces the desired suppression, but only if the electrodes themselves are out of synch with each other.
In a series of clever experiments, the Canadian scientists demonstrated that triggering subconscious thoughts of faith increased self-control.
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