A pair of monkeys staring at colored shapes in a Princeton lab may have brought you closer to understanding how your own mind ...

Human brains learn new tasks quickly by reusing mental building blocks, a flexibility scientists are now studying to improve AI.

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Princeton scientists found that the brain uses reusable “cognitive blocks” to create new behaviors quickly.

Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks. Monkeys switching between visual categorization challenges revealed that ...

If you grew up in the '80s, you were probably weaned on Tetris and were thrilled when the modern-day equivalent, Block Blast, came out on April 3, 2022. But is this time-sucking pastime any good for ...

Some 2.3 million U.S. adults over 65 — more than 4% — have a diagnosis of dementia. But even without a diagnosis, a certain amount of cognitive decline is normal as age sets in. Whether it’s due to ...