Author: Dr. David Lowemann

Biden Seeks Huge Expansion of Obesity Drug Access

Outgoing US President Joe Biden proposed Tuesday to give millions more Americans access to weight loss drugs – but Donald Trump’s incoming health chief looked set to shoot down the idea. 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 November 26, 2024

Can Language Models Trained on Written Monologue Learn to Predict Spoken Dialogue?

Abstract Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently increased in popularity, in part due to their impressive performance on a number of language tasks. While LLMs can produce human-like writing, the extent to which these models can learn to predict spoken language in natural interaction remains unclear. This is a nontrivial question, as spoken and […]

Published on November 26, 2024

Dissociable Contributions of Goal‐Relevant Evidence and Goal‐Irrelevant Familiarity to Individual and Developmental Differences in Conflict Recognition

Abstract Recent studies using the diffusion decision model find that performance across many cognitive control tasks can be largely attributed to a task-general efficiency of evidence accumulation (EEA) factor that reflects individuals’ ability to selectively gather evidence relevant to task goals. However, estimates of EEA from an n-back “conflict recognition” paradigm in the Adolescent Brain […]

Published on November 26, 2024