Researchers have investigated the shared and unique neural processes that underlie different types of long-term memory: general semantic, personal semantic and episodic memory. Their study, published ...

Deep learning is a form of machine learning that models patterns in data as complex, multi-layered networks. Because deep learning is the most general way to model a problem, it has the potential to ...

Researchers have studied the neural response of Japanese junior high school students learning English as a second language, while listening to English sentences. More proficient boys showed more ...

*I don't pretend to understand all of this (yet), but I find it vaguely alarming and marvelous that language can be made to do this. It's so different from the human use of language that it's as if a ...

In a new article appearing in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows ...

Scientists have created a "neural atlas" of the brain that shows how the meanings of words correspond to different regions. The map, created by neuroscientists at the University of California, ...

Lead author Annick Tanguay, who conducted the study both at uOttawa’s Faculty of Social Sciences’ School of Psychology and the University of East Anglia in Norwich (UK). Researchers from the ...