New research challenges traditional views of how the brain makes decisions, suggesting that even its earliest regions play a ...

Researchers discover decision-making signals in the brain's early sensory regions, suggesting bidirectional feedback loops ...

New insight into decision-making pathways in the brain may impact the way engineers think about artificial intelligence, ...

The rapid ascent of large-scale artificial intelligence has provided neuroscience with a new set of powerful tools for modeling complex cognitive functions.

Performing a new task based solely on verbal or written instructions, and then describing it to others so that they can reproduce it, is a cornerstone of human communication that still resists ...

Past psychology and behavioral science studies have identified various ways in which people's acquisition of new knowledge can be disrupted. One of these, known as interference, occurs when humans are ...

A new paper examines the possible effects of two properties of receiver playing fields documented in studies of animal psychology -- habituation and neural adaptation -- on the efficacy of mate choice ...

For the past decade, AI researcher Chris Olah has been obsessed with artificial neural networks. One question in particular engaged him, and has been the center of his work, first at Google Brain, ...

Previously met with skepticism, AI won scientists a Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2024 after they used it to solve the protein folding and design problem, and it has now been adopted by biologists ...

Article reviewed by Grace Lindsay, PhD from New York University. Scientists design ANNs to function like neurons. 6 They write lines of code in an algorithm such that there are nodes that each contain ...