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Learning patterns in events can be a tricky business. Some patterns are easy to spot, like when you know that seeing dark clouds means rain is coming. But what about patterns that aren’t as obvious? That’s where nonadjacent dependencies (NADs) come in. NADs involve tracking the co-occurrences between elements that are far apart in time. […]
Imagine trying to solve a puzzle where the pieces are constantly changing shape and interacting with each other. That’s what researchers in cognitive neuroscience are facing when it comes to understanding antisocial behavior (ASB). They argue that studying the brain in isolation from its environment is like trying to solve a puzzle by looking at […]
Imagine reading a sentence and trying to figure out who the main character is. Most languages tend to assume that the person performing the action, the ‘agent’, comes first. However, a new study in Äiwoo, a language that prioritizes patients before agents, challenges this assumption. Using electroencephalography (EEG), researchers found that when nonhuman nouns were […]
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