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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🖥️ 📚 **AI Is Making Reading Books Feel Obsolete – And Students Have A Lot To Lose**

"_The evidence reveals that the more users rely on AI to perform work for them, the less they see themselves as drawing upon their own thinking capacities. A study employing EEG measurements found different brain connectivity patterns when participants enlisted AI to help them write an essay than when writing it on their own._"

🔗 theconversation.com/ai-is-maki.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Literature #Research #Learning #Education #Reading #Books #Bookstodon #CriticalThinking #Cognition @bookstodon

The ConversationAI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to loseEven before generative AI went mainstream, fewer people were reading books.
formuchdeliberation

More Exercise Isn’t Always Better: New Study Reveals the Surprising Secret to a Younger Brain…

Moderate #exercise may slow #brain #aging , protecting #cognition and brain structure, while too little or too much activity may have the opposite effect... Source: More Exercise Isn’t Always Better: New Study Reveals the Surprising Secret to a Younger Brain

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for much deliberation · More Exercise Isn’t Always Better: New Study Reveals the Surprising Secret to a Younger Brain…Moderate #exercise may slow #brain #aging , protecting #cognition and brain structure, while too little or too much activity may have the opposite effect… Source: More Exercise Isn’t Always B…
Nick Walker

Coming this Wednesday!

#psychedelics #psychedelictherapy #psychedelicscience #psychology #psychotherapy #therapy #mind #cognition #consciousness #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #autism #autistic #neuroqueering

open-foundation.org/events/onl

OPEN FoundationAutism and Psychedelics: A Continuing Conversation with Nick Walker and Daan Keiman - OPEN FoundationJoin Dr. Nick Walker and Daan Keiman for a deep dive into the evolving intersection of psychedelics, autism, and neurodiversity. This follow-up conversation builds on earlier insights, exploring how psychedelic therapies can affirm neurodivergent experiences and reimagine healing beyond the individual. An open invitation to practitioners, researchers, and community members to co-create inclusive, transformative care.
ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Texas A&M University: Nature-Inspired Virtual Reality Boosts Emotional Well-Being In Older Adults Living With Dementia . “Exposure to nature — even in a virtual setting — can enhance the emotional well-being and quality of life for older adults living with dementia. That’s the main finding from a pilot study led by Junhyoung ‘Paul’ Kim, a health technology researcher with Department of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/04/texas-am-university-nature-inspired-virtual-reality-boosts-emotional-well-being-in-older-adults-living-with-dementia/

#aging#alzheimers#ar
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Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ

“At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are outside language, they are unformulable, although they are perfectly rigorous and clear and although every one of the relations they involve is capable of precise expression in words. So the mind moves in a closed space of partial truth, which may be larger or smaller, without ever being able so much as to glance at what is outside.”

–Simone Weil

#Philosophy#Language#Cognition
RDN

Website features that are designed to improve accessibility for those with disabilities also makes those websites easier to read, and enhances cognitive engagement, for those without disabilities.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

journals.plos.orgImpact of web accessibility on cognitive engagement in individuals without disabilities: Evidence from a psychophysiological studyWeb accessibility features on websites are designed for individuals with disabilities that include low vision and cognitive impairments, but such features can benefit everyone. This study investigates the impact of accessibility features of the web on ambient/focal visual attention and cognitive processing in individuals without disabilities. The study involved 20 participants reading news websites with different levels of low vision and cognitive-related accessibility features while their eye movements and heart rate variability were monitored. The findings show that cognitive engagement declined over time when no accessibility enhancements were present. The study also demonstrates that enhancing cognitive accessibility leads to increased user cognitive engagement, while low vision accessibility features make websites easier to read. These findings are corroborated by self-reports and psychophysiological measures, such as eye-tracking metrics and heart rate variability. The effects from these psychophysiological measures, together with participants’ self-reports, support the benefits of enhancing web accessibility features for all users. The implications for future website design are also discussed.
#Science#WebDesign#Accessibility
Calishat

#AI #misinformation #cognition

'Both the people and the LLMs tended to be overconfident about how they would hypothetically perform. Interestingly, they also answered questions or identified images with relatively similar success rates.

However, when the participants and LLMs were asked retroactively how well they thought they did, only the humans appeared able to adjust expectations, according to a study published today in the journal Memory & Cognition.'

cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-sto

www.cmu.eduAI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon UniversityLarge Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots.
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