Intelligence

The study says differences in children's brains, which affect their sensitivity to pressure and rewards, and differences in the way they process information, make it more likely they will admit to crimes they didn't commit when…

The brain can teach artificial intelligence a lesson or twoCredit: Brainx3.com, SPECS lab. Thanks to the so-called deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms inspired by the brain, machines can match human…

According to the researchers, three songs from a playlist are enough to identify the person who chose the songs. Hence, companies like YouTube and Spotify can accumulate a great deal of information about their users based only on their…

Credit: U.S. Army photo illustration ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Army and Arizona State University researchers identified a set of approaches to help scientists assess how well autonomous systems and humans communicate. These…

The prevalence of intellectual disabilities, which means difficulties with learning and understanding new things, is roughly 1-2% in the population. People with a severe intellectual disability need help from others in daily activities…

Expressive language sampling (ELS) is a useful tool for measuring communication development in youth with Down syndrome, a new multi-site study has found. The study, co-led by Angela Thurman and Leonard Abbeduto from the UC Davis MIND…

Doublespeak, or the use of euphemisms to sway opinion, lets leaders avoid the reputational costs of lying while still bringing people around to their way of thinking, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Waterloo…

Credit: Urfu / Nadezhda Pavlova. Researchers from University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) and Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia) have developed and experimentally tested new method to understand how the brain builds…

Study by Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science neuroscientists conduct meta-synthesis of three decades of research How different are men and women's brains? The question has been explored for decades, but a new study led by…

Credit: Kiyomi Taguchi/U. of Washington Ever get stuck trying to solve a puzzle? You look for a pattern, or a rule, and you just can't spot it. So you back up and start over. That's your brain recognizing that your current…

Credit: Vincent Breton-Provencher/MIT Picower Institute By encoding a feature of biological intelligence called reinforcement learning, in which we iteratively learn from successes and failures, "deep neural networks" (DNNs) have…

From signals to cognitionCredit: World Scientific Human beings are living inside an ocean of signals. These signals enable human beings to demonstrate intelligence. Similarly, machines are also surrounded by signals. Artificial…

An analogue method to mastering the digitalCredit: World Scientific Have you ever wondered if it's possible to learn all there is to know about machine learning and deep learning from a book? Machine Learning--A Journey to Deep…

Study in 4-6 year olds finds fitness-cognition linkCredit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers report that 4-6-year-old children who walk further than their peers during a timed test - a method used to estimate…

Cognitive training sessions delivered outside a controlled lab setting - "in the wild" - can lead to lasting brain health improvements DALLAS (January 26, 2021) - Many people believe that they can't change their brains, or that their brain…

Study offers view of genetics of noncognitive skills influencing educational success Noncognitive skills and cognitive abilities are both important contributors to educational attainment -- the number of years of formal schooling that a…

The Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Rumi Scientific announced today that they will team up to initiate a drug discovery pipeline for rare genetic disorders that carry a…

Credit: (Illustrations by MATSUMURA Minami) When toddlers begin to use a spoon to eat by themselves, what kind of interactions occur between them and their caregiver to facilitate this behavior? An international research…

Doctors should change the way that they ask patients about self-harm and suicide, study recommends Doctors can better help patients with mental health concerns by adopting a different questioning style around self-harm and suicide, experts…

Scientists launch hexxed - a free mobile game designed to map human intelligence across the globeCredit: Marta Correia. The Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal. Within a short span of time and with few instructions, people…