Despite a century of research, memory encoding in the brain has remained mysterious. Neuronal synaptic connection strengths are involved, but synaptic components are short-lived while memories last ...

Smell can evoke powerful memories, subtly influence attraction, and even regulate stress. But research suggests that what we sense depends as much on experience as on biology.

Quadratic regression is a classical machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. Quadratic regression is an extension of basic linear regression. Quadratic regression can deal with ...

The Rust reimplementation of classic Unix tools reaches version 0.7 with numerous performance improvements and build fixes ...

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First of four parts Before we can understand how attackers exploit large language models, we need to understand how these models work. This first article in our four-part series on prompt injections ...

Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive science research suggests that convenience comes at a measurable cost. When ...

Forgetting why you walked into a room isn’t a sign of cognitive decline. It’s your brain doing exactly what it evolved to do.

The new MacBook Neo is in the same performance ballpark as the M1 MacBook Air. Here's how the newest budget notebook compares against the original Apple Silicon MacBook Air.

Memory is not a recording device. It doesn't play back events like a video camera would. Instead, it's a remarkably active, ...

The field of systems neuroscience increasingly seeks to understand how distributed neural populations interact to support complex cognitive functions such ...

This useful study supplements previous publications of willed attention by addressing a frontoparietal network that supports internal goal generation. The evidence is solid in analyzing two datasets ...