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Imagine your brain is like a garden, and the environment is the soil in which it grows. Scientists are now examining how certain environmental factors can influence the development of brain diseases. By analyzing data from various research studies, they have identified several clues that suggest a link between environmental exposures and the onset of […]
Imagine you’re trying to predict someone’s dance moves, but all you have to go on are some blurry photos of them. What do you do? Well, you could try to analyze the photos and make an educated guess about their next move. That’s exactly what scientists are doing with 3D human motion prediction. They’re using […]
Imagine you have a magical calculator that can perform arithmetic-like operations without symbols or numbers. That’s similar to what young children with limited knowledge of formal mathematics are capable of! But how exactly do these nonsymbolic arithmetic operations work? A group of researchers conducted experiments with children to investigate if there are function-like rules guiding […]
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