Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks.

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The UK's first centre for research into pioneering brain implants will be in Newcastle. The new National Centre for ...

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Discover how cognitive flexibility in humans allows for rapid learning by reusing skills, a challenge for AI learning models.

When education is framed primarily as optimizing neural circuitry, we risk losing sight of the full complexity of human ...

This valuable study shows that regions of the human auditory cortex that respond strongly to voices are also sensitive to vocalizations from closely related primate species. The study is ...

Scientists are digging into one of evolution’s strangest puzzles — why only certain creatures developed minds that know they ...