10+ hour, 54+ min ago   (391+ words) A new study of 1,050 German students reveals that higher intelligence accelerates the development of metacognitive knowledge in math. While girls also outpaced boys, initial math skills and motivation did not affect how quickly this knowledge grew....

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (588+ words) “Scientists, linguists, and philosophers have debated for millennia about the relationship between language and reasoning,” said Hope Kean, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. “Is language merely a tool for expressing our…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (753+ words) One basic form of this coordination is majority-following, a mechanism where individuals simply adopt the most popular opinion around them. When individuals prefer the majority view, they can spontaneously reach a consensus even without objective information about which choice is…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1075+ words) People increasingly expect language models to do more than just chat. Software programs powered by large language models, commonly known as LLMs, are being designed to browse the web, operate tools, and make financial or shopping decisions for users. In…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (525+ words) To answer their research questions, the scientists recruited forty native Italian speakers. All participants were right-handed and reported no history of neurological or psychiatric disabilities. Before the main experiment, the researchers removed data from five participants due to technical issues…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1152+ words) To fully understand this research, it helps to know a bit about large language models (LLMs). These are highly complex computer programs trained on vast amounts of text data scraped from the internet. They power the popular AI chatbots that…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (975+ words) Generative artificial intelligence refers to computer programs capable of creating new text, images, or other media based on user instructions. The most common of these tools rely on large language models. Developers build these models by feeding them billions of…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (193+ words) A study of young adults with backgrounds in mathematics or music found that individuals with better mathematical abilities tended to have better musical abilities as well, and vice versa. However, this association was most likely caused by intelligence being an…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (400+ words) Thomas Coyle, a researcher at the University of Texas at San Antonio, conducted the study to expand upon earlier investigations of cognitive ability. Coyle wanted to track how mechanical and spatial forms of tilt evolve over the teenage years. He…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1127+ words) As these conversational algorithms take a more active role in mediating communication, it raises a question about how people respond to a machine acting on behalf of another human. Interactions online are increasingly text-based, meaning algorithms will likely play a…...