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·July 15, 2026·12 min read

Centered Daydreaming Reduces Core Limitations of AI Memory

Centered Daydreaming alters the network's processing to analyze local variations relative to a running baseline average rather than absolute pixel inputs.

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·May 8, 2026·11 min read

Why Massive AI Models Actually Generalize Better

Physicists have developed a mathematical "toy model" using statistical physics to explain one of the great mysteries of deep learning: why massive neural networks learn patterns instead of just memorizing data. By applying renormalization theory, the team has shown how high-dimensional fluctuations stabilize learning, paving the way for more efficient and predictable artificial intelligence.

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·April 4, 2026·7 min read

Mapping the Brain’s Internal Stopwatch

New research reveals that time perception is a multi-stage process distributed across the brain. From raw visual encoding to subjective categorization, scientists have finally mapped how the brain builds its internal clock.

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·April 16, 2025·4 min read

Realistic AI Avatars Boost Trust in Science Communication

AI-generated avatars are increasingly used to deliver science content on platforms like TikTok, raising questions about how their appearance affects viewer trust. A new study tested whether avatar realism and gender influenced perceived trustworthiness among nearly 500 participants.

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·January 27, 2025·5 min read

How the Brain Processes Space and Time

New research highlights a functional hierarchy in the brain's processing of space and time. In posterior areas, like the occipital cortex, space and time are tightly linked and processed by the same neurons. In anterior regions, such as the frontal cortex, space and time are processed independently, with distinct neural populations forming "time maps" for specific durations.

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·November 14, 2023·7 min read

Rodents Reflect Human Visual Processing: Motion Insight

A new study reveals that rats, like primates, have specialized visual neurons for accurately perceiving motion. By recording rat cortical cells and analyzing their behavior with AI models, researchers identified a cluster of neurons similar to “pattern cells” in primates, vital for processing complex motion.

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·May 16, 2023·4 min read

Perception is Not Only a Matter of Now: Our Past Influences What We See

Our past experiences influence our current perceptions. The brain's visual bias merges past and present stimuli, resulting in a perception that is often a distorted representation of reality. This phenomenon, explored with the help of EEG signals, demonstrates that the occipital cortex retains traces of past images, intensifying perceptual bias. This research underlines the brain's role not only as a receptor but also a constructor of reality.

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·December 9, 2021·4 min read

Cognitive Aging: Work Helps Our Brain

Work plays an active role in keeping the brain healthy and retaining cognitive abilities as we age, researchers report.

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·May 15, 2021·4 min read

Empathic and Altruistic, or Cold and Individualistic: Our Brains Reveal the Truth

Prefrontal cortex activity reveals those who have a more detached personality have similar activity when processing information relating to both social and non-social stimuli. By contrast, those who are more agreeable have significant differences in PFC activity when processing the different forms of information.

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·March 5, 2019·4 min read

Discovery of the Genetics Conductor of Brain Stem Cells

Researchers describe their findings about how the Foxg1 gene is involved in the development and differentiation of neurons and glial cells from stem cells.

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·April 3, 2018·4 min read

Parkinson’s Disease and Binge Eating

A new study sheds light on why some people with Parkinson's disease binge eat. Researchers report working memory impairment and alterations in reward sensitivity could be behind why binge eating can be problematic in those with Parkinson's.