Tag: human brain
Mice Can’t Do Calculus but Their Brains Can
Neuroimaging and mathematics showed that a simple Stop! signal in the brain would not allow a mouse to stop as quickly as it in fact did.
Human Brain Shape Has Hardly Changed
The changes in human heads were not driven by a changing brain, researchers say. It was the human face that changed.
Brain Size Doesn’t Determine Intelligence
Brains are not simple, so many “just common sense” theories have fallen by the wayside.
Human Brain Has Many More Language Connections than Chimp Brain
The researchers were interested in a nerve tract that connects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, the arcuate fasciculus.
No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code
These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps.