learning and language
- The Hebrew University
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Groundbreaking research reveals that marmosets mark each other by name using unique calls, an ability that until now was thought to be the exclusive preserve of a limited number of species. The findings provide new insights
- Avi Blizovsky
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A new research method proposes to analyze changes in behavior and leaps in learning to study consciousness, using sudden increases in learning - "eureka moments" - to identify conscious thought processes and study the mechanisms
- Avi Blizovsky
- 2 תגובות
Creativity is a unique brain function. Local damage to the brain as a result of a stroke can lead to changes in creative ability—both positive and negative. This discovery suggests that the neurological basis of creativity can be narrowed down.
- Avi Blizovsky
- 4 תגובות
Researchers from the Hebrew University and their partners around the world have discovered that parents repeat words more often when talking to young babies, and use a more varied vocabulary as the children get older
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
Theater researchers examined the reception of the Haifa International Festival for Children's Plays
- Science site The Conversation
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- Avi Blizovsky
- 9 תגובות
New research reveals that a linguistic bias in the English language, which encourages us to "improve" things by adding to them instead of subtracting from them, is so common that it's even been incorporated into artificial intelligence chatbots
- Tel Aviv University
- 3 תגובות
A new learning method may lead to a significant improvement in visual perception abilities * According to the researchers, improving the perception ability of people with autism is a difficult challenge, requiring the patients to undergo lengthy and tedious training in addition to the difficulty
- Haim Mazar
- One response
First summary of the findings of the MARS INSIGHT spacecraft on Mars
- Avi Blizovsky
- 4 תגובות
Dusty solar panels and darker skies are expected to bring the Mars lander mission to an end around the end of this year
- Yoram Soreq
- One response
MP asks, "How is it possible that no one remembers their own birth, the baby can see and hear and smell and feel... how is it possible that such a traumatic event no one has even a trace
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
- 4 תגובות
- Yoram Soreq
- 4 תגובות
How is it that: the Hebrew Language Academy does not have a Hebrew name? The angry D asks about the decrees of this institution
- Science site The Conversation
- 4 תגובות
Long before shots were fired, a linguistic power struggle was underway in Ukraine, explains a linguistics expert
- The science service
- The Hebrew University
Researchers from the Hebrew University found that mothers respond by releasing dopamine to their baby's positive and negative facial expressions
- Yoram Soreq
- 8 תגובות
S. asks "do you need intelligence to play football"
- Avi Blizovsky
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- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
In recent years, the language seems to be changing faster than ever - including on the topic of climate. Is it better to call the processes taking place in the world today "global warming", "climate change" or "climate crisis"? Is the gas in the Mediterranean Sea
- You found Simon
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Heart rate synchronization occurs, even when subjects are listening to a story alone, when they are attentive to certain points in the story
- You found Simon
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Mice that suffered from a lack of sleep increased the activity of inhibitory neurons in the hippocampus, thereby disrupting the processing and storage of new memories.
- Weizmann Institute
A new research approach makes it possible to document how the brain learns new rules
- The Hebrew University
A joint study by researchers from the Hebrew University and Yale University makes it possible for the first time to examine whether awareness and unconscious processes should be lived.
- The Hebrew University
- One response
In a new study recently published in Nature Communications, the role of one of the distinct genes for autism called POGZ was examined