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Brain size alone tells us little about intelligence — here's what we know
For centuries, we’ve explored this question, sometimes with very biased answers. Find out what modern research says about brain size and IQ.
A new study finds that looking at something and imagining it triggers the same exact process in the brain. It's also very similar to the process artificial intelligence uses to create an image.
Researchers at Georgia Tech are using math, science, and artificial intelligence to better understand how people think, move, ...
A new study by York University researchers has found a potential striking flaw in artificial intelligence (AI) models. Artificial neural networks (ANNs), a type of AI model built to solve vision tasks ...
For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?
To this day, in the known universe, only one example exists of a system capable of general-purpose intelligence. That system ...
Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology in Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology, is also the director of the Notre Dame Human Neuroimaging Center and the Decision ...
The same brain cells activate when you see something and when you imagine it, helping explain why mental images can feel so ...
We all know the feeling of having an “Aha!” moment—when your thoughts and ideas seem to flow without friction or viscosity and come together in a millisecond of perfect harmony. Having an epiphany is ...
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