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March 9, 2025
Infants naturally learn about the world through a process of incremental understanding, building foundational concepts before tackling more complex ones. For example, infants recognize animacy - distinguishing between living and...
March 7, 2025
By William C. Mao and Veronica H. Paulus, Crimson Staff Writers
BOSTON — More than 500 researchers, physicians, and students rallied at Boston Common on Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s efforts to cut federal funding...
BOSTON — More than 500 researchers, physicians, and students rallied at Boston Common on Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s efforts to cut federal funding...
January 29, 2025
Our mission is to drive the development and adoption of AI-based solutions across a broad spectrum of computational methods, with a particular focus on the aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing sectors within the Italian...
January 29, 2025
Sometimes, it might be better to train a robot in an environment that’s different from the one where it will be deployed.
Adam Zewe | MIT News
A home robot trained to perform household tasks in a factory may fail to effectively...
Adam Zewe | MIT News
A home robot trained to perform household tasks in a factory may fail to effectively...
January 6, 2025
Data from macaque monkeys reveals flaws in deep neural networks
By Anne J. Manning, Harvard Staff Writer | Press contact
Among the marvels of the human brain is its ability to generalize. We see an object, like a chair, and we...
By Anne J. Manning, Harvard Staff Writer | Press contact
Among the marvels of the human brain is its ability to generalize. We see an object, like a chair, and we...
December 23, 2024
The decoding of a brain region that distinguishes one face from another may offer clues to the very nature of consciousness.
In the spring of 1995, Nancy Kanwisher was granted access to the functional magnetic resonance imaging...
In the spring of 1995, Nancy Kanwisher was granted access to the functional magnetic resonance imaging...
October 31, 2024
The 54th annual Rosenstiel Award has been conferred on four remarkable neuroscientists who have deciphered how humans and other primates recognize faces.
We perceive faces in ways that differ from other objects, perhaps because...
We perceive faces in ways that differ from other objects, perhaps because...
September 19, 2024
The Schmidt Sciences Polymath Program funds high-risk, innovative projects by providing multi-year grants to top researchers in critical areas from AI to climate change.
NEW YORK—Six groundbreaking researchers have been awarded...
NEW YORK—Six groundbreaking researchers have been awarded...
September 11, 2024
By The Associated Press
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Four researchers working in the United States are sharing a $1 million prize from a Portuguese foundation for their work on how the human brain distinguishes faces, shapes and...
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Four researchers working in the United States are sharing a $1 million prize from a Portuguese foundation for their work on how the human brain distinguishes faces, shapes and...
September 9, 2024
Making data (and code) useful for yourself automatically makes it useful for others.
By Samuel Gershman
This series of scientist-written essays explores the benefits and challenges of data-sharing and open-source technologies in...
By Samuel Gershman
This series of scientist-written essays explores the benefits and challenges of data-sharing and open-source technologies in...