John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

We've all experienced it: you're in the middle of a conversation, searching for a word, a name, or a title, and… nothing. You ...

While early language models could only process text, contemporary large language models now perform highly diverse tasks on ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new, and important or just 'background noise.' ...

Scientists are developing a brain-computer interface to help patients with Broca’s aphasia regain speech. Broca’s aphasia ...

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word 'cat' is stuck on the tip of your tongue. This phenomenon, known as Broca's aphasia or expressive ...

An improvement to an existing AI-based brain decoder can translate a person's thoughts into text without hours of training.

But one has to be mindful of context, for there is the sincere usage of the phrase, as well as a cynical utilization. One might see, “Stone Mountain is the largest exposed outcropping of ...

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