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·October 7, 2019·4 min read

Computer model helps make sense of human memory

A newly developed artificial neural network allowed researchers to insert inhibitory circuits into the model, altering the excitatory circuits and enabling them to extend associative memory.

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·September 25, 2019·3 min read

New research analyzes video game player engagement

Study examines how video game players engage in their chosen game and how they respond to different motivations. For games with in-game purchasing features, the more rounds or levels a person plays, the more likely they are to spend on purchases.

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·September 19, 2019·4 min read

Decoding how kids get into hacking

Study reveals differences in personality types and gender roles between teens who get into hacking.

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·July 26, 2019·4 min read

A computer that understands how you feel

EmoNet, a new convolutional neural network, can accurately decode images into eleven distinct emotional categories. Training the AI on over 25,000 images, researchers demonstrate image content is sufficient to predict the category and valence of human emotions.

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·July 15, 2019·6 min read

How expectation influences perception

Brain activity patterns in the frontal cortex encode beliefs and affect how we perceive the world around us.

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·July 14, 2019·5 min read

Neuroscience and artificial intelligence can help improve each other

Researchers look at how neuroscience can help with artificial intelligence technology and vice versa.

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·July 12, 2019·1 min read

Sound mind: Detecting depression through voice

Artificial intelligence is now better able to detect depression by analyzing the sound of a person's voice.

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·July 10, 2019·5 min read

Expert mathematicians stumped by simple subtractions

Our knowledge of the world has a critical impact on the ability to use mathematical reasoning, even for mathematicians. Findings reveal math professionals can be duped by some aspects of their knowledge about the world and fail to solve simple fifth-grade math problems.

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·July 7, 2019·5 min read

Scientists may soon be able to predict your memories

Using a mathematical model, researchers uncover the effects of emotion in memory encoding. They hope the data can be used to predict which experiences a person is most likely to recall.

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·June 4, 2019·3 min read

How chronic inflammation may drive down dopamine and motivation

Computational model sheds light on the impact chronic, low-grade inflammation has on the mesolimbic dopamine system and motivational impairments.

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·May 29, 2019·2 min read

Outsmarting deep fakes: Researchers devise an AI-driven imaging system that protects authenticity

It might start to get easier to distinguish between real and fake images, thanks to a new deep learning system developed by NYU. The system is able to implant digital watermarks using an artificial neural network and spot manipulated photos and videos.

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·May 7, 2019·5 min read

Smarter training of neural networks

Researchers report artificial neural networks contain subnetworks that are considerably smaller, yet capable of being trained to make equally accurate predictions. Many subnetworks can learn to make accurate predictions much faster than the original networks.