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·February 21, 2017·4 min read

Creative People Have Better Connected Brains

A new study reports highly creative people appear to have more connections between their brain hemispheres.

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·August 11, 2018·4 min read

Crowdsourcing Algorithms to Predict Epileptic Seizures

Researchers report improvement of up to 90% in seizure prediction, thanks to crowdsourcing over 10,000 algorithms world wide.

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·May 24, 2016·5 min read

Crowdsourcing Contest of Data From Dogs and Humans Advances Seizure Forecasting

Teams of data scientists use crowdsourcing to analyze recordings of electrical activity in the brains of people and dogs before and during seizures.

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·December 4, 2016·4 min read

Data Scientists Find Causal Relation in Characteristics of ADHD

Researchers suggest more emphasis be placed on attention deficit rather than hyperactivity in people with ADHD.

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·May 20, 2017·3 min read

Finding Traces of Memory Processing During Sleep

A machine learning algorithm shows that during sleep, the brain actively reprocesses information learned the previous day, strengthening the memory.

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·June 22, 2015·4 min read

Hitting That Curveball: Brain and Phone GPS Apply Same Algorithm to Track Moving Objects

Researchers report the Kalman filter, an algorithm both our brains and GPS systems use to track an object's position, can be tricked by the pattern of motion.

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·August 27, 2018·5 min read

How Cells Make Connections Could Impact Circadian Rhythm

Researchers have developed a new, data driven approach to reveal the topology of networks connected to the circadian clock.

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·May 18, 2016·3 min read

How Your Brain Learns to Ride the Subway

Researchers investigate how the human brain implements hierarchical structures in order to design more clever algorithms for machine learning.

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·October 7, 2016·7 min read

Human Behavior Study Identifies Four Basic Personality Types

90 percent of the population can be classified into one of four main personality types, and of those, 30 percent fall under the envious personality type, a new study reports.