Engineers are starting to build hardware that does not just run artificial intelligence, it behaves like a primitive form of ...

From navigation to social behavior to personality, scientists are rewriting what it means to be a clever snake. Here’s what ...

But cleverness is hard to define - animals have to contend with different challenges in life and what might be clever or ...

The cerebellum facilitates associative learning—wherein visual information is linked to motor actions—by strengthening sustained visual responses. Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have ...

AI hallucination is often misread as creativity. This explains why it’s a symptom of optimization fatigue, and what that means for innovation, brands, and culture.

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

This important study reports three experiments examining how the subjective experience of task regularities influences perceptual decision-making. Although the evidence linking subjective ratings to ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

This is an important contribution that largely confirms prior evidence that word recognition - a cornerstone of development - improves across early childhood and is related to vocabulary growth. This ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?