Are the same technologies that promise to make us smarter making us less capable of the mental work that builds understanding ...

Using JWST and ALMA data, astronomers have spotted a superlong and narrow 'galactic contrail,' possibly produced by a black ...

Artificial intelligence began as a quest to simulate the human brain. Is it now in the process of transforming the human brain’s role in daily life? The Industrial Revolution diminished the need for ...

Category learning is a fundamental cognitive process that enables humans and other species to organise complex sensory input into meaningful groups. This ability underpins decision‐making and adaptive ...

A new study shows the type of feedback a chatbot gives affects learning and brain activity. Reflective feedback boosts ...

The study of cognitive processes in reasoning and mental models explores the ways in which individuals represent, manipulate, and utilise internal representations to draw inferences and make decisions ...

Immersive virtual reality experiences can reproduce visual hallucination effects, miming those induced by the use of ...

Lawyers strive for fairness and justice in every case they handle. However, the behavioral science research shows that human reasoning in legal contexts is inherently flawed and vulnerable to both ...

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

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