Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Human-Based Brain Organoids Replicate Key Processes of Learning and Memory

Redefining Research: This study shows that a human-based brain organoid model can mimic key brain functions such as ...
HUB

Brain imaging reveals surprises about learning

The team pinpointed the exact moment mice learned a new skill by observing the activity of individual neurons, confirming earlier work that suggested animals are fast learners that purposely test the ...
Fast Company

For truly intelligent AI, we need to mimic the brain’s sensorimotor principles

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 ...
Science Daily

Researchers uncover brain region's role in hearing and learning

The human brain is remarkably adept at adjusting what we hear based on contexts, like our current environment or priorities, but it's still unknown how exactly the brain helps us detect, filter and ...
EdSurge

Why ‘Brain Rot’ Can Hurt Learning — and How One District Is Kicking It Out of School

I was recently sitting with my friend’s 9-year-old son, Guillermo, as he teed up a YouTube video on the TV. I’d wanted to get a kid’s perspective on “brain rot,” Oxford University Press’ 2024 word of ...

UC Davis Researchers Look at How the Brain Prioritizes What We See

How we focus our attention before we even see an object matters. For example, when we look for something moving in the sky, ...
Newsweek

Heading by Soccer Players Can Damage the Brain’s Learning Regions

The heading of a soccer ball—an intrinsic and routine feature of play in the world's most popular field sport—causes long-term damage to areas of the brain associated with learning, according to a new ...