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What Our Brain’s Electrical Signals Reveal About Language, Meaning and Memory

By measuring the brain’s electrical signals, researchers in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology's Cognition and Brain Lab explore how the brain links sensory information to meaning and memory.
28-Oct-2024 12:40 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Falling for It: A Micro-Scale Look at How Parachute Fibers Act Under Stress

Researchers from the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology used micro-CT scans to understand how stress impacts parachutes on the fiber-scale. This information will be used to develop better models for identifying promising parachute...
21-Oct-2024 1:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Speech Accessibility Project expands to Canada

The Speech Accessibility Project is now recruiting Canadian adults with Parkinson’s disease, cerebral palsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Down syndrome and those who have had a stroke.
18-Oct-2024 10:55 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Automatic Speech Recognition Learned to Understand People with Parkinson’s Disease — by Listening to Them

Listening to people with Parkinson’s disease made an automatic speech recognizer 30% more accurate, according to initial findings from the Speech Accessibility Project. Speech recordings used in the study are freely available to organizations...
27-Sep-2024 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Studying Sex-Specific Pain Levels in Wheelchair Users

Josh Leonardis, a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, received funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of...
23-Sep-2024 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Nature-Inspired Patterns Boost Polymer Toughness

With a new spin on a reaction called frontal polymerization, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology can create materials that mimic the patterned structure that makes...
18-Sep-2024 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Variety is the spice of learning, memory study suggests

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology found that older adults learned a memory task best after practicing multiple related tasks, suggesting that diverse cognitive training...
10-Sep-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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An antiracist approach to intelligence research: Q&A with LaTasha Holden

Traditional perceptions of intelligence may have created unfair limitations for students, especially those from historically marginalized communities. Beckman researcher and psychology professor LaTasha Holden believes that changing our fundamental...
29-Aug-2023 1:05 AM EDT

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