In recent years, sustainability has emerged as a critical focus for businesses worldwide.\xa0 While environmental and economic sustainability often dominate discussions, the concept of Sustainable ...

New research proposes a unified theory of brain function based on criticality—a state where the brain teeters between order ...

Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order and randomness is the secret to learning, memory, and adaptability. When ...

In a new paper with implications for preventing Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, Keith Hengen, an ...

Large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of the well-known conversational platform ...

In education, as in psychology, clarity matters. Yet in everyday conversations about teaching and learning, terms like learning theory and pedagogy are often used interchangeably. Phrases such as ...

In contrast to behaviorism, humanistic theories (particularly those of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow) emphasize the importance of addressing students’ emotional and psychological needs. Humanistic ...

The top of Maslow’s Hierarchy — the ultimate condition of human opportunity — has to do with self-actualization. But first, humans must fulfill needs of esteem.

Wooldridge’s point that U.S. higher education should be more like 1970s Toyota is well taken—but not because Toyota outdid Detroit in eliminating human complexity.

Dr. Ullman noted that machine learning researchers have struggled over the past couple of decades to capture the flexibility of human knowledge in computer models.