'Optimist' and 'pessimist' neurons: How the brain balances risk and reward in making decisions
Every day, our brain makes thousands of decisions, big and small. Any of these decisions—from the least consequential, such ...
How Teatime and Cartoons Changed the World
In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in ...
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Even after learning the right idea, humans and animals still seem to test other approaches, study suggests
New research adds evidence that learning a successful strategy for approaching a task doesn't prevent further exploration, even if it reduces performance.
Machine learning sheds light on how the human brain perceives feeling
How the brain feels about the world around it is the subject of a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Who gets to be a physicist? Research explores physics educational motivations of non-traditional students
What motivates students from non-traditional backgrounds to choose physics at university? Researchers at Communication and Learning in Science, among others, have investigated this question. The ...
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A geometric deep learning method for decoding brain dynamics
Scientists have developed a geometric deep learning method that can create a coherent picture of neuronal population activity during cognitive and motor tasks across experimental subjects and ...