One of the most important cognitive foundations of human language is our ability to develop associations between the ...

Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...

Just as historical buildings accumulate layers of plaster over time, one's identity is shaped by overlapping experiences—some ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

Social cognition refers to our ability to interpret social cues, understand the perspectives of others, and respond appropriately to social situations, says Frank. “Schizophrenia can affect this ...

Curate your BRAIN for synergy with AI: hone self-awareness, purpose, emotional depth, curiosity, and social bonds. It’s time ...

Social activity not only delays dementia onset an average of five years; it also carries a $500,000 lifetime savings on healthcare costs per person, according to a new paper from Rush University ...

Who are the people that help to make the federal government work? By The Learning Network What do you notice about partisan control of the newly elected state legislatures and governorships in the ...

Research by Herrera-Isaza et al. demonstrates that environmental enrichment—which includes cognitive, sensory, and social stimulation—can alleviate emotional and cognitive dysfunction caused by ...

Comparison of that ancient DNA with modern human DNA showed that the two species had interbred and that people today still ...

In this paper, to address these two challenges, we propose a novel semantic map-based cognitive escape reinforcement learning (SM-CERL) navigation method, which consists of two innovatively designed ...