Tag: Learning
Astrocyte cells in the fruit fly brain are an on-off switch...
Sarah DeGenova Ackerman, University of Oregon
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Why AI can’t ever reach its full potential without a physical...
Mark Lee, Aberystwyth University
Artificial intelligence seems to be making enormous advances. It has become the key technology behind self-driving cars, automatic translation systems, speech...
Brain scientists haven’t been able to find major differences between women’s...
Ari Berkowitz, University of Oklahoma
People have searched for sex differences in human brains since at least the 19th century, when scientist Samuel George Morton...
Complex birdsongs help biologists piece together the evolution of lifelong learning
Cristina Robinson, Vanderbilt University; Kate Snyder, Vanderbilt University, and Nicole Creanza, Vanderbilt University
Bonjour! Ni hao! Merhaba! If you move to a new country as...
5 ways to develop children’s talents
Kenneth A. Kiewra, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Some people think talent is born. The often-told story of Mozart playing piano at 3 and composing at 5...
A grim year for the smartphone: 5 essential reads
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
The year 2017 marked the 10th anniversary of the iPhone. Five years ago, for the first time, over 50 percent of...
‘He’s Pavlov and we’re the dogs’: How associative learning really works...
Edward Wasserman, University of Iowa
My ears perked up when, in recent weeks, I heard Donald Trump and Ivan Pavlov mentioned twice in connection with...
EXPLORING NATURE
At Antarctica’s midwinter, a look back at the frozen continent’s long...
Daniella McCahey, Texas Tech University
As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the...
