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The newly opened MIT Schwarzman College of Computing building will form a new cluster of connectivity across a spectrum of disciplines in computing and artificial intelligence.

A collaboration between two research teams with opposing views found that, despite claims to the contrary, simply reminding people about the concept of accuracy improves the quality of information sharing on both sides of the political aisle.

What makes an animal cute? In a 2016 article published in "Trends in Cognitive Sciences," researchers found that cuteness plays an important role in the infant-caregiver relationship. The world's cutest animals have features that tug on their parents' heartstrings (and increase their brain activity).

Academics are proposing a new and improved way to help researchers discover when consciousness emerges in human infancy.

On the surface, the movement disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and the cognitive disorder frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), which underlies frontotemporal dementia, manifest in very different ways. In addition, they are known to primarily affect very different regions of the brain.

A new approach to determining when consciousness emerges in human infants is being proposed by academics, offering a fresh perspective on a question that has puzzled psychologists and philosophers for centuries.

<p>An MIT study of polyglots found the brain’s language network responds more strongly when hearing languages a speaker is more proficient in — and much more weakly to the speaker’s native language.</p>

The two institutions will undertake joint research, student exchange and support the use of high-end equipment

Participate in the Allahabad Regional Brain Bee, a neuroscience contest for high school students hosted by CBCS. Test your skills in the written and oral rounds and get a chance to attend an international conference on neuroscience.

Traditional navigation techniques from across the world, some of which have been in use for thousands of years, can inform western science, according to research from UCL and the University of York.The new review paper, published in Trends in Cogniti