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Humans or machine: Who is better at evaluating memories?

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Research from Ben-Gurion University reveals that humans can assess the veracity of others' memories at the same level as language processing models, and in some cases even better than them.
Crow in the desert. Photography: Ran Natan

Wise from the source: the surprising minds of the desert crows

The crows have become a routine part of our landscape. How smart are they really, and why is one species more successful than another?
roots. Image: depositphotos.com

Podcast: Botany — Thinking Like Plants (Episode 1)

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Prof. Yasmin Maroz from the School of Plant Sciences and Food Safety in the Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University talks about the secret world of plants in the Tel Aviv 360 podcast of Tel Aviv University
Alzheimer's. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The combined vaccine for shingles: a breakthrough in reducing the risk of dementia

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While the live shingles vaccine has already shown signs of protection against dementia, the new combined vaccine offers even more promising results, with far-reaching public health implications
Man is allowed (still) over artificial intelligence. Credit: The Science website. The image was prepared using DALEE and is not used as a scientific image

Intel Labs Israel develops artificial intelligence accessible to everyone with powerful hardware

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Intel researcher Moshe Weserblat describes how advanced innovation in artificial intelligence, cognition and natural language processing is developed in the company's laboratories, in cooperation with start-up companies and Israeli academia, in the entire range from basic science to
Prof. Hermona Sorek (right). Photo: Yosef Edst, courtesy of the Hebrew University

Breakthrough in Alzheimer's research among women

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Professor Hermona Sorek, one of the world's leading researchers of gene expression in the brain, was able to find, in collaboration with her research colleagues, a molecular mechanism that occurs in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, which does not occur in men and which explains the acceleration
Serious illness with corona damages the brain. Photo: depositphotos.com

Researchers in the United Kingdom: severe morbidity in Corona is equivalent to twenty years of aging

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More precisely a cognitive decline such as that which occurs between the ages of 50 and 70, which is also equivalent to ten IQ points
"Similar to humans, the ability of bats to place others in space is essential for them." Photo: Brooke Fenton.

Me and the Guys: How the Brain Maps Social Space

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Illustration: US Food and Drug Administration

People with fatty liver have an "older" brain

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Illustration: pixabay.

Research: Adults and infants likely use the same mechanism to improve their movement accuracy

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Decreased mitochondrial calcium uptake in cells where the MTCH2 gene has been neutralized. The photo on the left shows a nerve cell that has not been genetically modified. The photo on the right shows a transgenic nerve cell (without MTCH2). Fluorescent sensors were inserted into the cells in order to illuminate the absorption of calcium in the mitochondria, and calcium was added to the growth medium of the cells. As you can see, the sensors illuminate significantly less in the engineered cell (the color scale ranges from blue, indicating low calcium absorption, to yellow, indicating high calcium absorption), which indicates impaired calcium absorption in the mitochondria. Source: from the article.

calcium escape from the brain

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A new study shows that brief and incidental exposure to a stimulus that creates a sensory sensation or evokes associations related to cold (such as a picture of a winter landscape) can improve performance in a cognitive control task. Source: pixabay.

Can a cold temperature or a winter image affect cognitive control?

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Bottles of insulin for injection. Source: Alan Levine.

Research: Insulin resistance is associated with an accelerated decline in cognitive functions

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A man plays on the Playstation. Photo: Steven Andrew / flickr.

How computer games strengthen the brain

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Chimpanzees at Chester Zoo in the UK. Source: heatherlynneburrows / flickr.

Toddler's tool kit

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Stamp in memory of Jose Raul Capablanca issued by his homeland, Cuba. Kiev. Victor / Shutterstock.com

Secrets from the mind of an expert / Philip A. Ross

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Reading letters directly from the subject's mind. Photo: Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

The computer that reads letters directly from the brain

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A picture illustrating the perception of size. Illustration: Ben-Gurion University

Who knows how much?

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