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 ...

Go to almost any classroom and, within minutes, you’re likely to hear a frazzled teacher say: “Let’s pay attention.” But researchers have long known that it’s not always necessary to pay attention to ...

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 ...

I've recently taken up learning a language, mainly using the periods when I'm commuting to and from the office to use audio lessons, with some follow-up study later to look at writing and better ...

Tapes promising to "build your vocabulary while you sleep" have long been debunked by modern science, but the brain can absorb certain data unconsciously. Takeo Watanabe, Ph.D., director of the ...

Although the idea that instrumental learning can occur subconsciously has been around for nearly a century, it had not been unequivocally demonstrated. Now, new research uses sophisticated perceptual ...

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 ...

We are constantly learning new things as we go about our lives. In addition to learning new facts, procedures, and concepts, we are also refining our sensory abilities. How and when these sensory ...

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 is changing the rules — at least, that seems to be the warning behind Anthropic's latest unsettling study about the current state of AI. According to the study, which was published this month, ...