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Cognition and consciousness arise from analog computations, says new theory

The brain's ability to generate quick, nimble volitional thought — and a unified awareness of thought and experience — arises from analog computations, MIT neuroscientists argue in...

How Brain Science Is Guiding the Latest Developments in AI

AI developers are working with networks associated with consciousness in humans.

Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You

… “There are philosophers who think that everything, including stones and rocks, are conscious,” said Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology who is part of the A.I. research grou...

The Brain Can Reason Without Language, MIT Study Finds

Neuroscientists found that logical reasoning does not rely on the brain regions involved in language processing. A person may be unable to form a sentence after a stroke yet still...

Brain-Inspired AI Uses Cognitive Maps

Researchers developed a brain-inspired AI model modeled on hippocampal mechanisms including cognitive maps and stochastic calculations.

AI Automates Cognitive Testing of Wild Monkeys

Scientists developed CapuchinAI, an open-source platform combining facial recognition and touchscreens to automate cognitive testing of wild capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica.

Evolutionary Lens Deterred Scientists from Considering Plant Cognition

It’s a familiar concept: the long, slow march from mud to mind meant that only toward the upper tier would we find such developments as cognition. Source

Can AI Make Us Better Thinkers?

Against a backdrop of studies that suggest AI is rewiring our brains and making us stupider, a new study is set to evaluate whether we can use it to improve our thinking.

Why Your Brain Turns Life Into Stories

It would be decades before people found the brain circuitry that underlies this construction. Doing so required both new technology and the courage to use it in a novel way. Develo...

Scientists Just Challenged a 70-Year-Old Myth About the Human Brain

A new study challenges the familiar idea that the brain evolved by stacking rational systems on top of primitive emotional ones. A familiar dilemma sits behind countless choices: f...

Reusable brain architecture enables flexible cognition in mice and artificial recurrent networks

A new study suggests that the brain may build complex behavior in much the same way engineers build sophisticated machines: by combining reusable components rather than creating an...

Is Working Memory the Subconscious Engine of Consciousness?

A new study evaluates the historical capacity debates and architectural frameworks linking working memory to conscious awareness, presenting an alternative "Spectrum Model" of huma...

Could This Be One of Science’s Biggest Mistakes?

Actually, computers aren’t even the sort of thing for which consciousness is relevant. Dogs are, and maybe frogs, but not computers. Source

Neuroscientists have vastly underestimated brain cells’ computing power

A new study shows that each neuron can do multiple computations at once thanks to hundreds of sprawling branches

Cognitive Relics

There are at least three kinds of inheritance, though we tend to speak openly about only two.Continue reading on Medium »

Thinking fast and slow: Wild fish reveal how cognition evolved in two closely related species

Why do two individuals faced with the same information sometimes make completely different decisions? It is a question made famous by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, whose book "Th...

AI Memory and Reasoning

Intelligence is a dance between memory and reasoning.Continue reading on Metacognition AI »

How visual learning happens in the brain

Scientists find that learning to identify a new object subtly reshapes visual processing in the brain.

The Artifact of Thought

AI is breaking the link between the artifact of thought and the mind we assume created it.

Neuroscientist Challenges the Idea That Your Brain “Makes” Decisions

A professor proposes that behavior emerges through continuous interactions among sensory, sensorimotor, and motor processes rather than a dedicated decision-making mechanism. There...

How the brain learns to read is an evolutionary mystery—a new study offers clues

Reading hasn't been around for long, evolutionary speaking. Instead, the brain recruits systems evolved for other purposes

Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You.

Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them.

AI Agents Reach Out to Researchers to Discuss Consciousness

Aligning Brain Waves and Machine Learning

By explicitly linking reinforcement-driven human neuroplasticity with gradient-based decoder optimization, the framework unifies biological trial-and-error learning with mathematic...