Artificial intelligence can already beat grandmasters at Go, draft legal briefs, and generate photorealistic images in ...

Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order and randomness is the secret to learning, memory, and adaptability. When ...

Life can be tricky. We have so many decisions to make. It's a good thing we have an orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus to help us. These areas of the brain work together to help us sort through ...

We all spend our days thinking, solving problems, making choices, learning new things, yet most of us rarely pause to examine ...

When education is framed primarily as optimizing neural circuitry, we risk losing sight of the full complexity of human growth. I call on my fellow educators to situate neuroscience as one vital lens ...

A new framework that causes artificial neural networks to mimic how real neural networks operate in the brain has been ...

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New research finds that brain development is not linear. There are distinct phases with unique characteristics.

In a recent essay by Sam Altman, titled “The Intelligence Age,” he paints a picture for the future of AI. He states that with AI, “fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of ...

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Teachers’ beliefs matter for student learning—but myths about the brain can be easily spread and hard to dislodge. The vast majority of active and future teachers—and even more of the general public ...