"Interaction is at the heart of cognition," say 28 scientists. I think they're right—and it's at the heart of events too!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/interaction-heart-cognition
"Interaction is at the heart of cognition," say 28 scientists. I think they're right—and it's at the heart of events too!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2023/02/interaction-heart-cognition
Archaeoethnologica: Anthropology of Magic & Witchcraft - Book / Antropologia da Magia e a Bruxaria - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/06/antropologia-da-magia-e-bruxaria-livro.html
Archaeoethnologica: Anthropology of Magic & Witchcraft - Book / Antropologia da Magia e a Bruxaria - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/06/antropologia-da-magia-e-bruxaria-livro.html
The impact of early age-related #hearing loss on working #memory capacity and #speech recognition in noise in middle-aged and older adults
#Cognition #Life #Health #Prevention #Aging #Ageing #Geriatrics #Gerontology #MedMastodon
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0531556525001524?dgcid=rss_sd_all
Painting on paper, 20 x 30 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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[Science] Researchers claim their AI model simulates the human mind. Others are skeptical
https://www.science.org/content/article/researchers-claim-their-ai-model-simulates-human-mind-others-are-skeptical
[Nature] A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09215-4
Evidence-Based Health Benefits and Clinical Insights https://www.byteseu.com/1155474/ #Adaptogen #Clinical #cognition #endurance #Fatigue #Health #HerbalMedicine #MentalHealth #Rhodiola #stress #wellness
A mouse study finds that electrical activity in brain synapses leads to metabolism of triglycerides in the synapses to support brain energetics. Blocking this lipid metabolism leads to torpor.
Summary: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-triglycerides-play-important-role-brain.html
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-025-01321-x
https://www.europesays.com/us/24683/ Do AI systems need bodies for true intelligence #AdaptiveIntelligence #ai #AIAndRobotics #AIEthics #AIEvolution #AISystems #ArtificialIntelligence #AutonomousPhysicalIntelligence #cognition #EmbodiedCognition #GeneralIntelligence #MachineLearning #NonlinearFeedback #roboticists #SoftRobotics #SoftRobots #Technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStates #US
New paper with Aida Gómez-Robles: “Why did the human brain size evolve: a way forward”. We propose that this seemingly unanswerable question can be tackled with simulation-based inference. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2024.0114
#brain #evolution #evodevo #math #maths #spandrel #cognition
We also discuss how this approach finds that the human brain size may surprisingly be a “spandrel” (byproduct), and empirical evidence supporting this.
The paper also discusses how our understanding of evolution by selection is affected by an explicit consideration of development.
Many thanks to Elli Leadbeater and Alex Thornton for putting together the special issue that the paper is part of. Very much looking forward to diving into the other papers!
Looks really good: comparing #infant-directed #communication across #greatapes with humans. This identifies a very significant evolutionary shift.
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The Mind of a Bee: An Exploration of the Intelligence of Bees. A talk with bee researcher Lars Chittka (via himself on ): https://biologicalrecording.co.uk/2025/02/18/mind-of-a-bee/ "He shows that they are profoundly smart, have distinct personalities, can recognize flowers and human faces, exhibit basic emotions, count, use simple tools, solve problems, and learn by observing others. They may even possess consciousness."
The Brain’s Dynamic Highway System: Microtubules, Actin, and Neuroplasticity
#Neuroscience #Neuroplasticity #BrainScience #Microtubules #ActinFilaments #Memory #Learning #BrainHealth #QuantumMind #NeuralNetworks #Cognition #MindMysteries #BrainBiology #Neurodegeneration #Neurophilosophy
Formal study on how over reliance on LLMs is harmful for cognitive abilities for students.
> ""Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.""
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
"This is part of what is lost by ChatGPT, the mistaken belief that the spat out string of words in a reasonable order is the only goal, when it’s often the cognitive act of producing the string of words that matters most."
"It’s a training ground for the most quintessentially human aptitudes, combining how to think with how to use language to communicate.
If you want to know what you think about a topic, write about it. Writing has a way of ruthlessly exposing unclear thoughts and imprecision."
"Artificial intelligence is already killing off important parts of the human experience. But one of its most consequential murders—so far—is the demise of a longstanding rite of passage for students worldwide: an attempt to synthesize complex information and condense it into compelling analytical prose."
~ Brian Klaas
#AI #ArtificalIntelligence #education #cognition
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