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Pterodactyl had space-age technology inside prehistoric skull.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 10/30/2003; 1040 words
; ... activity with body movement. Birds and bats, the only other vertebrates to master flight, also have a flocculus, but pterosaur flocculi are much bigger relative to the size of the rest of their brains. Witmer's research centered mostly on how pterodactyls performing ...
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Scientists find equivalent of space-age technology inside prehistoric skull.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 10/30/2003; 1029 words
; ... activity with body movement. Birds and bats, the only other vertebrates to master flight, also have a flocculus, but pterosaur flocculi are much bigger relative to the size of the rest of their brains. Witmer's research centered mostly on how pterodactyls performing ...
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Effects of Cochlear Nuclei Electrical Stimulation With Surface Brain Stem Implants in Nonhuman Primates
The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology; 3/1/2008; Manrique, Manuel; Cervera-Paz, Francisco Javier; Insausti, Ana M; Nevison, Barry; 4821 words
; Objectives: We undertook morphological evaluation of the cochlear nucleus complex (CNC) after implantation of a surface auditory brain stem implant (ABI). Methods: We used 14 nonhuman primates (Macaca fascicularis). They underwent translabyrinthine bilateral auditory deafferentation and
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GROSS ANATOMY
Artforum; 10/1/2004; Jackson, Shelley; 1396 words
; ... punishments. This dystopia is a tour de force of scabrous invention. It is also uncomfortably real. As a kid I flipped through Science News and got an unpleasant shock when I inadvertently put my finger on a close-up of a spider's mandibles. Similarly, something about ...
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The Age of Sinatra
Review of Contemporary Fiction; 7/1/2005; Riker, Martin; 304 words
; ... sentient creatures who have "no frame of reference, no cultural traditions." We watch humans snack on green neut glands called "flocculi," and Ohle gives us such satirically suggestive lines as "My flocculus, it's fruiting. Why don't you Americans have a taste ...
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David Ohle. The Age of Sinatra.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 6/22/2005; Riker, Martin; 301 words
; ... sentient creatures who have no frame of reference, no cultural traditions. We watch humans snack on green neut glands called flocculi, and Ohle gives us such satirically suggestive lines as My flocculus, it's fruiting. Why don't you Americans have a taste of ...
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Vestibulo-ocular physiology underlying vestibular hypofunction.(Perspective)
Physical Therapy; 4/1/2004; Schubert, Michael C. Minor, Lloyd B.; 8240 words
; The vestibular system is responsible for sensing motion of the head and maintains stability of images on the fovea of the retina and postural control during that motion. When functioning normally, the vestibular receptors in the inner ear provide an exquisitely accurate representation of the motion
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Limits on the role of retrieval cues in memory for actions: Enactment effects in the absence of object cues in the environment
Memory & Cognition; 12/1/2007; Steffens, Melanie C; Buchner, Axel; Wender, Karl F; Decker, Claudia; 11066 words
; ... phrases in order to teach them to a green stuffed animal, Flocculi, who allegedly came from Mars and knew hardly anything about life on earth. As a result, the children visibly focused on Flocculi during the study and recall phases, rather than on the related-obje ... cued by the presence of objects in the ...
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Cerebellar disease implicated in abnormal eye movement
Ophthalmology Times; 8/15/2005; Charters, Lynda; 1073 words
; Eye signs Cerebellar disease implicated in abnormal eye movement Three areas of cerebellum important in modulation of eye movements, according to expert Reviewed by Michael X. Repka, MD Baltimore-A number of eye movement disturbances are characterized by cerebellar disease and saccadic intrusions.
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Mitigating health risks in active pools.
Public Works; 6/1/1999; Mittelstaedt, Arthur H., Jr.; 1235 words
; A new wave of leisure pools is appearing in public parks and recreation areas. These leisure pools range from wave pools through lagoons, water flumes, and lazy rivers to interactive pools. The wading pools and spray pools seen in many parks had one or two low-velocity spray heads and usually
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