Cognitive science has shaped how we talk about learning, but can teachers assess what they can’t observe? Exploring a more practical alternative.

New research reveals that individual neurons follow multiple learning rules simultaneously, challenging the long-held belief that synaptic plasticity operates uniformly throughout the brain.

As you experience or encounter new things, your brain must encode this information via the right neural networks at the right ...

But revising can be a drag, and you may well be trying to commit things to memory that you aren't that engaged with. If this ...

Social media has eroded our patience for challenging cognitive tasks. Now, students are conditioned to reach for AI.

Scientific credibility depends on valid research. But with growing concerns about replication failures and questionable ...

The Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) of University College London (UCL) designs and delivers continuing professional development offerings in digital research practices to colleagues and ...

The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescope ...

Do you make decisions using your intuition—or is it actually “misintuition”? Here’s what researchers are learning about how ...

Overall, in 2024, more than 3,000 professionals from close to 60 countries were trained in 29 nations on the treatment of drug use disorders, and more than 50,000 people were reached by those trained ...

Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological ...

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