Learning can change how the brain organizes sensory information, but researchers are still working out what those changes ...

One of the challenges with existing fraud detection systems is that they are primarily rules-based, using predefined notions of what constitutes fraudulent or suspicious behavior. The problem is that ...

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 ...

Detecting patterns is an important part of how humans learn and make decisions. Now, researchers have seen what is happening in people's brains as they first find patterns in information they are ...

Neural networks have been powering breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, including the large language models that are now being used in a wide range of applications, from finance, to human ...

When babies experience the world around them — hear the sounds, see the sights — their brains are doing a lot to process that information. “While you’re just plain old loving your babies, talking to ...