The notion that prediction is a fundamental principle of human information processing has been en vogue over recent years. The investigation of language processing may be particularly illuminating for testing this claim. Linguists traditionally have argued prediction plays only a minor role during ...
Donate to the Weill Cornell Women's Brain Initiative and help support cutting-edge research on women's brain health. participate About the speaker Lisa Mosconi Neuroscientist See speaker profile Researcher Lisa Mosconi studies the brains of living pati...
You may be familiar with a recent story about an Israeli research team 3D printing a human heart. This is an incredible achievement and it just scratches the surface of what will be possible in the future with this technology. As 3D printing becomes cheaper and more sophisticated, which it w...
Love: It’s one of the few things in life that can create intense pleasure or intense pain in our lives. It’s the one force that has the power to put you on top of the clouds or in a deep, dark hole. Yet, no matter how much experience we gain in love, it seems like […] ...
Then, he argues how technology has made information more accessible, such as Wikipedia, but has also created many miscellaneous things such as battery toy trains, electric blenders, and vibrators. He then argues that technology affects every person more often than they expect, from search engines...
But they wouldn't seek out additional tastes of the sugar [source: Chen]. While dopamine doesn't cause pleasure, it does influence how pleasure affects the brain. But there are different views of how it accomplishes that. One school of thought is that dopamine's biggest influence is ...
as Northeastern history professor Dan Cohen discussed recently with students in a class dedicated to exploring the way digital media and technology are shaping historical study. “[The photos are] entirely convincing,” he says. “You can stick a whole bunch of people on a beach and with a ta...
However, what might take a human months to accomplish, a machine can do in hours. That’s what makes AI so efficient. Using technology like machine learning, deep learning, and natural speech processing, AI is becoming more capable of reading and understanding humans. And connecting the dots ...
Unlike their 19th century predecessors, who had to be content with mucking around with scalpels and shooting electricity into random spots of the brain to see what happened, today's neuroscientists have at their disposal an array of sophisticated technology for probing the mysteries of how the bra...
VRLEs, on the other hand, leverage VR technology to provide immersive and interactive educational experience. VRLEs may provide students an interesting and immersive learning experience that allows them to engage with the virtual environment and gain a better understanding of the educational curriculum ...