AutismFeaturedNeuroscience·April 11, 2025·8 min readAI Rewrites Workouts for Children With Autism and ADHDResearchers have adapted a children’s exercise program to better serve neurodivergent learners using AI-generated instructions. By leveraging ChatGPT, the team simplified and clarified movement directions in over 500 activities from the InPACT video series.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·April 1, 2025·6 min readAI Thinks Like Us: Flaws, Biases, and All, Study FindsA new study finds that ChatGPT, while excellent at logic and math, exhibits many of the same cognitive biases as humans when making subjective decisions. In tests for common judgment errors, the AI showed overconfidence, risk aversion, and even the classic gambler’s fallacy, though it avoided other typical human mistakes like base-rate neglect.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·February 12, 2025·5 min readAI vs. Human Therapists: Study Finds ChatGPT Responses Rated HigherA new study suggests that ChatGPT’s responses in psychotherapy scenarios are often rated higher than those written by human therapists. Researchers found that participants struggled to distinguish between AI-generated and therapist-written responses in couple’s therapy vignettes.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·December 17, 2024·3 min readAI Tweaks Personality Tests to Appear More LikableLarge language models (LLMs) can identify when they are being given personality tests and adjust their responses to appear more socially desirable. Researchers found that LLMs, like GPT-4, showed exaggerated traits such as reduced neuroticism and increased extraversion when asked multiple test questions.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·December 13, 2024·5 min readAI Mirrors Human Bias: ‘Us vs. Them’ in Language ModelsAI systems, including large language models (LLMs), exhibit "social identity bias," favoring ingroups and disparaging outgroups similarly to humans. Using prompts like "We are" and "They are," researchers found that LLMs generated significantly more positive sentences for ingroups and negative ones for outgroups.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·November 7, 2024·7 min readCan Language Models Really Understand? Study Uncovers Limits in AI LogicA recent study questions if large language models (LLMs) truly form coherent world models, despite their accurate outputs in complex tasks like generating directions or playing games. Researchers found that while LLMs provide nearly flawless driving directions, they fail with unexpected changes, suggesting the models don't grasp underlying rules.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·October 4, 2024·4 min readAI Admissions Essays Align with Privileged Male Writing PatternsResearchers analyzed AI-generated and human-written college admissions essays, finding that AI-generated essays resemble those written by male students from privileged backgrounds. AI essays tended to use longer words and exhibited less variety in writing style than human essays, particularly resembling essays from private school applicants. The study highlights concerns about the use of AI in crafting admissions essays, as AI may dilute a student’s authentic voice. Students are encouraged to use AI as a tool to enhance, not replace, their personal narrative in writing.Read More
Brain CancerFeaturedNeurologyNeuroscience·October 1, 2024·4 min readChatGPT Matches Radiologists in Brain Tumor Diagnosis AccuracyResearchers compared the diagnostic accuracy of GPT-4 based ChatGPT and radiologists using 150 brain tumor MRI reports. ChatGPT achieved 73% accuracy, slightly outperforming neuroradiologists (72%) and general radiologists (68%).Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·September 30, 2024·5 min readAI Tools Predict Future Depression Symptoms from Word ChoiceA new study has found that analyzing a person’s word choice can predict worsening symptoms of major depressive disorder. Researchers used human evaluators and ChatGPT to assess written responses, finding that both could accurately predict depression severity weeks later.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·May 30, 2024·3 min readOpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Edu, Revolutionizing Higher EducationChatGPT Edu, powered by GPT-4o, is designed for universities to responsibly integrate AI into academic and campus operations.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·May 6, 2024·6 min readAI Outperforms Humans in Moral JudgmentsPeople often view AI-generated answers to ethical questions as superior to those from humans. In the study, participants rated responses from AI and humans without knowing the source, and overwhelmingly favored the AI’s responses in terms of virtuousness, intelligence, and trustworthiness.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·April 14, 2024·5 min readSocial Media Fuels Eating Disorder Echo ChambersA new study investigates the role of social media in exacerbating eating disorders among users. Researchers used machine learning to analyze millions of tweets, uncovering a troubling cycle where harmful content related to eating disorders is easily accessible and often intertwined with regular diet discussions.Read More
