Cognitive science.

The uproar caused by Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer who believes that one of the company’s most sophisticated chat programs, LaMDA (or Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is sapient, has had a curious element: actual AI ethics…

Linda Boiler, who researches public mental health at the Trimbos Institute in the Netherlands and was not involved in this study, compares well-being to a vaccine that can protect people when they run into tough situations. “Maybe we…

To eavesdrop on a brain, one of the best tools neuroscientists have is the fMRI scan, which helps map blood flow, and therefore the spikes in oxygen that occur whenever a particular brain region is being used. It reveals a noisy world.…

Here’s the research setup: A woman speaks Dutch into a microphone, while 11 tiny needles made of platinum and iridium record her brain waves.The 20-year-old volunteer has epilepsy, and her doctors stuck those 2-millimeter-long bits of…

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had trouble falling asleep at night. Like many people, I struggle with intrusive thoughts and find it hard to switch off. Bedtime triggers conversation replays, worries about my kids, or my greatest-hits…

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University conducted an experiment with 42 people learning the Arabic alphabet into three groups of learners as writers, typers and video watchers. The study published in the journal .‘Handwriting…