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While the NYU study tested memory and simple recognition, other recent research looking at activity in the brain at rest and the learning of complex visual tasks has yielded similar results. Neurologist Maurizio Corbetta of Washington University in St. Louis recruited 14 people to use their peripheral vision to identify a hidden pattern - an inverted T - that was flashed briefly on a screen inside an fMRI machine. After each daily training session, lasting one to two hours for about a week, participants were given an hour's rest, during which time Corbetta scanned their brains. (Read "The fMRI Brain Scan...
...Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 6,” a world premiere of Leon Kirchner’s “The Forbidden,” and Robert Schumann’s “Piano Concerto in A Minor” with soloist Maurizio Pollini. The program was a unique combination of romanticism and contemporary styles, united by the passion running though each of the works. The concert opened with Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 6,” subtitled “Pathétique.” Having...
...across the Atlantic to get this authentic experience? Wouldn’t crossing the Charles suffice? After failing to persuade my Italian class of the academic merits of a field trip to the North End, my teacher, Nives Dal-Bo’ Wheeler, suggested I contact her friend Maurizio Tognetti, who lives in the North End: “If you would like me to put you in touch him…maybe he could give you some useful advice and some further inspiration.”I met Mr. and Mrs. Tognetti in their apartment on Tileston Street...
...airline closer than ever to bankruptcy. On Thursday evening, the Milan stock exchange announced that Alitalia shares will be suspended until April 8, following the public company's next board meeting. The failure of talks with Air France, also prompted yet another resignation at the top, as Alitalia chairman Maurizio Prato stepped down just seven months after taking over the troubled air carrier with the goal of facilitating its sale. Now, nothing is likely to move until after Italy's April 13-14 national elections...
...voters of New Hampshire didn't vote the way the commentators and pollsters said they would. It's long past time that the talking heads acknowledge they don't have any more political insight than do the schoolteacher and garage mechanic pulling the lever in the voting booth. Frank Maurizio, Schenectady...