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Abstract From early in childhood, humans exhibit sophisticated intuitions about how to share knowledge efficiently in simple controlled studies. Yet, untrained adults often fail to teach effectively in real-world situations. Here, we explored what causes adults to struggle in informal pedagogical exchanges. In Experiment 1, we first showed evidence of this effect, finding that adult […]
Imagine you have a limited amount of money to spend on shopping, but your credit card keeps getting declined. Similarly, in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an elevated platelet count inhibits the connection between brain functional changes and cognitive function. A recent study used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore how blood […]
Imagine you’re trying to understand a story without words. Can you tell if the characters are happy, sad, or angry? That’s what researchers are exploring with visual representations. In this study, they compared humans and machines (specifically deep neural networks) to see if both could recognize negation in images. They collected data on how humans […]
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