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Just like a carefully choreographed dance routine, dance therapy shows promise as a non-pharmacological intervention for Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects over 1% of individuals worldwide, causing motor symptoms like tremors and rigidity. Dance interventions have been found to stimulate various parts of the brain involved in movement, sensory integration, […]
Discover how Johnston and Fusi delved into the world of neural networks to uncover the advantages of multitasking in the formation of disentangled representations. By training a network to simultaneously handle multiple tasks, they shed light on the benefits of flexible representations. This research builds upon the growing body of work exploring the structure of […]
Just like using landmarks to navigate a foreign city, the brain has a system for quickly learning and recalling information. This ability, known as meta-learning, allows us to draw on past experiences to guide our learning process. Instead of blindly trial-and-erroring our way through new situations, our brain acts more like a GPS system, pinpointing […]
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