Word: control
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...volunteers directly into the machine's brain. Eventually, the research at Sejnowski's and other labs could lead to a working lie detector, one that would be far more reliable and much less intrusive than existing polygraphs, which measure such reactions as heartbeat and sweating that clever subjects can control. Says Bartlett: "It would spot in an instant any facial movement that indicated a conflicting emotion, like a beginning of a scowl quickly covered up by a smile...
...nonforgiving and forgiving states. Subjects' cardiovascular systems inevitably labor when they remember the person who hurt them. But stress is "significantly greater" when they consider revenge rather than forgiveness. Witvliet suggests that we may be drawn to hold grudges "because that makes us feel like we are more in control and we are less sad." But interviews with her subjects indicate that they felt in even greater control when they tried to empathize with their offenders and enjoyed the greatest sense of power, well-being and resolution when they managed to grant forgiveness. "If you are willing to exert...
...wife pointed out that because we don't have any legacy 8-mm tapes, the charms of the Digital8 may be lost on us. But the benefits of digital video cameras are still compelling. You can create a huge variety of special effects and generally enjoy far more control over how images look. Also, digital tapes are much easier to edit on a PC; an analog tape first must be converted to digital, which is cumbersome. Perhaps the best news is this: for the next year, Sony is expected to have the only Digital8s on the market. That may well...
DIED. HENRY GRAHAM, 82, even-keeled former National Guard general who helped control some of the country's most explosive civil rights battles; of Parkinson's disease; in Birmingham, Ala. On June 11, 1963, Graham told George Wallace to step aside when the Alabama Governor stood in the entrance to a University of Alabama building, trying to prevent the school's desegregation (see Eulogy...
That's what makes a report in the current Nature so promising. U.S. and European scientists have shown that patients can learn, by trial and error, to control a type of brain waves called slow cortical potentials. By hooking the patients up to a computer via an electroencephalogram, the researchers taught two ALS sufferers to mentally signal the computer to pick out letters on a screen, spelling out messages. The process is agonizingly slow--the average pace is about two characters a minute--but it should eventually improve. And compared with utter silence, it must seem blistering...