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Teaching Robots Handwriting and Drawing

May 17, 2019

A new algorithm enables robots to reproduce human-like pen strokes just by looking at images of handwriting or sketches...

Deep Learning Tool Creates Better Personalized Workout Recommendations

April 23, 2019

Researchers trained the tool, called FitRec, on a dataset of more than 250,000 workout records for more than 1,000 runners...

Want to Learn a New Skill? Take Some Short Breaks

April 15, 2019

The study results highlight the critically important role rest may play in learning

Learning New Vocabulary During Deep Sleep

March 13, 2019

Sleeping time is sometimes considered unproductive time. This raises the question whether the time could be used more product...

Three Ways Studying Organic Chemistry Changes the Brain

March 8, 2019

The discoveries about the neuroscience of learning open the possibility of informing and enhancing instructional methods in s...

'Living Lab' in Ottawa Conducts Cutting-Edge Science in Family-Friendly Environment

July 9, 2018

Families planning a visit to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa now have the opportunity to participate ...

People Recall Information Better Through Virtual Reality, Says New UMD Study

June 14, 2018

Researchers conducted one of the first in-depth analyses on whether people recall information better through virtual reality,...

Brain's Window for Language Learning Open until Adulthood

May 2, 2018

A study of nearly 700,000 people reveals more about cognitive capabilities for new language learning

Study: Three-Month-Old Infants Can Learn Abstract Relations before Language Comprehension

April 5, 2018

While researchers know that children can use abstract relations by four years of age, they were uncertain as to when this abi...

The Brain Learns Completely Differently Than We've Assumed since the 20th Century

March 23, 2018

Recent research has demonstrated that the central assumption for nearly 70 years that learning occurs only in the synaps...

Does Dim Light Make Us Dumber?

February 7, 2018

In a recent rat study, rodents exposed to dim light lost about 30 percent of capacity in the hippocampus and performed poorly...

Giving Students Freedom in the Classroom in STEM Learning

November 10, 2017

Project-based learning (PBL) serves as a teaching method that gives students the freedom to find unique ways to solve a probl...

Researchers Identify Intriguing Links between Sleep, Cognition, and Schizophrenia

September 29, 2017

Study uncovers a previously unknown molecular bridge between sleep and memory

Study: Neurons Involved in Learning, Memory Preservation Less Stable, More Flexible Than Once Thought

August 21, 2017

The findings of a Harvard Medical School study reveal that the neurons responsible for such tasks may be less stable, yet mor...

Researchers Build Artificial Synapse Capable of Autonomous Learning

May 2, 2017

The discovery opens the door to building large networks that operate in ways similar to the human brain

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