Month: October 2021

Strength Inside: Developing Better Mental Health

Can exercise and resistance training be a positive tool to help manage personal anxiety and depression? Learn what it takes to be as strong inside as you are on the outside. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, […]

Published on October 8, 2021

Semantic Memory Search and Retrieval in a Novel Cooperative Word Game: A Comparison of Associative and Distributional Semantic Models

Abstract Considerable work during the past two decades has focused on modeling the structure of semantic memory, although the performance of these models in complex and unconstrained semantic tasks remains relatively understudied. We introduce a two-player cooperative word game, Connector (based on the boardgame Codenames), and investigate whether similarity metrics derived from two large databases […]

Published on October 7, 2021

When to Expect COVID Shots for Younger Kids

The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to allow COVID-19 vaccinations in children ages 5 to 11 – using kid-sized doses. Until now, only people 12 and older could be vaccinated in the U.S., with shots made by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech. That’s been a… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. […]

Published on October 7, 2021