Serendipitous moments often occur when ideas or "hunches" are detached from their usual fixed positions in the brain and allowed to move freely, collide, and recombine, creating new insights. The ...

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Mind-captioning is still in its infancy. It needs vast amounts of data, fully cooperative participants, and a very patient AI that doesn’t mind decoding thousands of silent dog videos. But its existen ...

The Running Man, an adaptation of Stephen King's early novel, is in theaters and we go behind-the-scenes with Edgar Wright ...

Scientists decode brain activity into readable English using AI and MRI scans, achieving 50% accuracy for medical ...

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental ...

Literary fiction has been shown to increase empathy, reduce stress, and improve well-being. Literary fiction, in contrast ...

Imagine you're watching a movie, in which a character puts a chocolate bar in a box, closes the box and leaves the room. Another person, also in the room, moves the bar from a box to a desk drawer.

A new study published in Science Advances presents a method that converts human brain activity into coherent, descriptive text—even when the brain is not actively processing language. Instead of ...

The language you learn as a child becomes the lens through which you understand the world. A team of researchers from over 30 ...