Psychology & Psychiatry
Testing during studying improves memory and inference
Research has shown that testing enhances memory. However, less is known on whether testing can improve a person's ability to make inferences.
Feb 18, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Mice 'detectives' hint at how humans read between the lines
Some people are annoyingly good at "reading between the lines." They seem to know, well before anyone else, who is the killer in a movie, or the meaning of an abstract poem. What these people are endowed with is a strong ...
Feb 11, 2020
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Radiology & Imaging
Artificial intelligence learns muscle anatomy in CT images
Personalized medicine has stirred the imagination of drugs and therapies that are individually tailored to patients. In the future, there will no longer be a need to worry about side effects, and patients will be screened ...
Oct 31, 2019
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Neuroscience
Circuit found for brain's statistical inference about motion
As the eye tracks a bird flying past, the muscles that pan the eyeballs to keep the target in focus set their pace not only on the speed they see, but also on a reasonable estimate of the speed they expect from having watched ...
Sep 17, 2018
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Neuroscience
Humans perceive time somewhere in between reality and our expectations
New research, using a Bayesian inference model of audio and visual stimuli, has shown how our perception of time lies mid-way between reality and our expectations.
Jul 13, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
New computational approach finds gene that drives aggressive brain cancer
Using an innovative algorithm that analyzes gene regulatory and signaling networks, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have found that loss of a gene called KLHL9 is the driving force behind the most aggressive ...
Oct 09, 2014
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