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MIT study reveals how relying on AI tools like ChatGPT may impair memory, creativity, and critical thinking through cognitive ...

Cognitive reserve is a concept that has piqued researchers' interest since the 1980s for its potential to buffer against cognitive decline due to aging or ...

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To flexibly and robustly handle diverse problems, AI systems can leverage dual-process theories of human cognition that ...

Researchers have long been interested in how humans and animals make decisions by focusing on trial-and-error behavior ...

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

One of the most successful methods for discovering the way mental processes are organized is to observe the effects in experiments of selectively influencing the processes. Selective influence is ...

Neuropsychologists examine how brain function influences behavior, focusing on cognitive processes rather than labels to ...

While the underlying mechanism is unclear, neuroscientists theorize saying something out loud separates and distinguishes it ...

To further extend the applicability of wearable sensors, methods for accurately extracting subtle psychological information from the sensor data are required. However, accessing subjective information ...