Scientific American

How working memory could give rise to consciousness

Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we’re engaged in right now, and scientists think it ...

Kioxia ships next-gen memory samples as AI boom fuels dramatic comeback

Kioxia ​on Friday held a ceremony at its fab in northern Japan as the chipmaker, whose shares have rocketed due to ‌the AI ...

Parents tried everything to calm crying baby—then came unexpected discovery

Patti and Marko Milosevic have hit upon a slightly different approach when it comes to soothing their infant son, Ollie.

Consciousness: how ‘working memory’ may mysteriously give rise to it

The ‘doorway effect’ suggests that when information is removed from working memory, it immediately seems to leave ...

How expectation and attention influence response speed and memory

People process lots of information about the environment while adapting as this information changes—without high energy use.

Your Brain’s ‘Dark Matter’ Could Rewrite What We Know About Your Consciousness, Behavior, and Decision-Making

An emerging notion that astrocytes directly participate in behavior, cognition, and brain computation by actively shaping ...
The Straits Times

‘Some flourish while others struggle’: NIE study finds five different paths of lower-income students

SINGAPORE – A local study has found that secondary school students from lower-income families are not a homogeneous group held back by a lack of resources. Researchers from the National Institute of ...
GitHub

Zero encoding extreme performance binary serializer for C# and Unity.

Compared with System.Text.Json, protobuf-net, MessagePack for C#, Orleans.Serialization. Measured by .NET 7 / Ryzen 9 5950X machine. These serializers have IBufferWriter<byte> method, serialized using ...
Frontiers

Credition - An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Beliefs and Believing

The concept of credition represents an innovative research field at the interface of the natural sciences and the humanities addressing the nature of beliefs and believing. Credition signifies the ...
Frontiers

Embodied Cognition over the lifespan: theoretical issues and implications for applied settings

The Embodied Cognition approach is now a well-established perspective proposing a close link between perception and action in the world and cognitive activities, including those, such as ...