B O S T O N, Oct. 24 -- Many people think learning requires intense study and focus. But a study in today's journal Nature seems to show that's not true. "You don't have to pay attention to something ...

We are constantly learning new things as we go about our lives and refining our sensory abilities. How and when these sensory modifications take place is the focus of intense study and debate. In new ...

Although the idea that instrumental learning can occur subconsciously has been around for nearly a century, it had not been unequivocally demonstrated. Now, a new study published by Cell Press in the ...

Psychologist Takeo Watanabe and his team at Boston University have uncovered the mechanism that primes the subconscious, enabling individuals to learn a task without actually realizing it. They also ...

From a teacher’s body language, inflection, and other context clues, students often infer subtle information far beyond the lesson plan. And it turns out artificial-intelligence systems can do the ...

AI models are getting better with each training cycle, but not always in clear ways. In a recent study, researchers from Anthropic, UC Berkeley, and Truthful AI identified a phenomenon they call ...

Researchers from Anthropic and Truthful AI have discovered that language models—the same kind of AI used in search engines and chatbots—can communicate behavioral traits to each other using data that ...

A critical step in visual perceptual processing is integrating local visual elements into contours so that shapes can be derived from them. It is often assumed that contour integration may reflect ...