Human memory and attention are core cognitive functions that shape perception, learning, and decision-making. And whilst decades of research have provided ...

A landmark study suggests that this daily habit may reshape how your mind activates.

Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks. Monkeys switching between visual categorization challenges revealed that ...

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Artificial intelligence may write award-winning essays and diagnose disease with remarkable accuracy, but biological brains still hold the upper hand in at least one crucial domain: flexibility.

If you’ve spent any time around kids lately, you’ve probably heard about “brain rot.” Named Oxford Word of the Year in 2024, it’s defined as the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or ...

Artificial intelligence systems that are designed with a biologically inspired architecture can simulate human brain activity before ever being trained on any data, according to new research from ...

AI models may be a bit like humans, after all. A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but ...

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Source: Walther. ChatGTP. 2025 When an eye-catching (not yet peer reviewed) MIT Media Lab paper, Your Brain on ChatGPT, landed this month, the headline sounded almost playful. The data are not. Over ...

As coaches, we are in the business of maximizing the human brain. We ask questions that stretch thinking, cultivate self-awareness and expand possibilities. But today we face a new challenge: ...