The importance of pitch in music is obvious. In speech too, communication of emotion depends on changing pitch, known as 'speech prosody'.
"We all know people who have difficulty perceiving tone of voice. They just don't get it when we're being ironic. They don't get it when we're irritated. It just goes over their head," says Thompson.
Date Posted: November 1, 2012
GOChildren’s voices come to life in animation as they describe symptoms of ADHD and what it’s like to have treatment.
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Employees who are more satisfied with their pay report lower levels of work-family conflict, a study by a University of Illinois labor and employment relations professor shows.
A worker’s actual salary is as important as pay satisfaction in ...
Oct 31
Categories: Career Development and Change, Family Problems
GOTreating alcoholism is incredibly difficult on many levels. One of the most difficult areas to deal with is social interaction, how people with alcoholism can interact with others. Alcoholics can have many problems with social exclusion. This is ...
Oct 31
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I met Moraitis on Ikaria this past July during one of my visits to explore the extraordinary longevity of the island’s residents. For a decade, with support from the National Geographic Society, I’ve been organizing a study of the places where ...
Oct 30
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An international team led by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York has for the first time shown that one area of the brain, called the anterior insular cortex, is the activity center of human empathy, whereas other areas of the ...
Oct 30
Categories: Empathy
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A new study implies that parents, perhaps naturally so, are positively biased toward their child’s abilities and emotions.
Psychologists at the Center for Mind and Brain, at the University of California, Davis, discovered parents consistently ...
Oct 30
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An intensive early intervention therapy that is effective for improving cognition and language skills among very young children with autism also normalizes their brain activity, decreases their autism symptoms and improves their social skills, a ...
Oct 29
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders, Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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With the rise of credit cards, PayPal and other ways of transferring cash electronically, real cash-money is in decline. Like CDs and books before it, the folding stuff looks certain to be another victim of technological advances.
But not just ...
Oct 29
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One in three former political prisoners of the GDR still suffers from sleeping disorders, nightmares and irrational fear. Professor Andreas Maercker from the University of Zurich and PD Matthias Schützwohl from Dresden University of Technology ...
Oct 29
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
GOConverging scientific evidence tells us that self-control is an important ability. It helps us keep our cool, get things done, and resist the things that tempt us. Numerous studies have found evidence for the idea of self-control as a limited ...
Oct 27
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Children with serious anger problems can be helped by a simple video game that hones their ability to regulate their emotions, finds a pilot study at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Noticing that children with anger control problems are often ...
Oct 27
Categories: Anger Management, Child and/or Adolescent Issues
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South Korea has some of the highest suicide rates in the country — and yet people still won't talk about how to get help. But the Seoul government is trying to combat the problem, by changing the atmosphere and environment on one bridge that has ...
Oct 27
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It is a difficult, yet brave and courageous moment when someone makes the decision to pursue mental health therapy. But more difficult than the decision to go to therapy is the decision of who to go to for therapy.
So, how does someone find a ...
Oct 25
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Life is about failure as much as it is about success. From the mistakes we make at work or school to our blunders in romantic relationships, we are constantly reminded of how we could be better. By focusing on the important qualities that make us ...
Oct 25
Categories: Self-Esteem, Stress Management
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A cute mistake that young children make is to think that they can hide themselves by covering or closing their eyes. Why do they make this error? A research team led by James Russell at the University of Cambridge has used a process of elimination ...
Oct 25
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A Drug that Cures Alcoholism May be the Next Anti-Anxiety Medication
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