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Babies Can Make Computers Faster

A group of researchers at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) wants to use the cognitive capabilities of babies and small children in order to make computers capable of a more human-like behavior. Doing so is entirely possible, the experts seem to think. This approach is very interesting because most scie...

15 March 2012
10:33 GMT

How the Infant Mind Works Exposed

Studies conducted for more than 20 years have revealed that, even at a very young age, children know some of the most basic aspects of the physical world. In a new research, experts discover how infants devise their own, sophisticated expectations based on unfolding situations.One of the things that the young ones le...

27 May 2011
07:45 GMT

Infants' Skills Development Is Favored by Nighttime Sleep

A new longitudinal study carried out by researchers at the University of Montreal and the University of Minnesota, concluded that children at one year old and at one year and a half old, that get most of their sleep during the nighttime, develop better skills than infants who sleep mostly during the day.The study inv...

16 November 2010
04:50 GMT

Multilingualism Has Positive Effects on Thinking

For a long time, scientists have been curious as to whether knowing more than one language has a positive effect on the brain, or if it benefits thinking patterns. A large number of studies on the issue was carried out, but the conclusions were mixed. Now, a new work done by a European Commission-appointed group brin...

19 October 2009
09:40 GMT

People with Higher IQs Make Sounder Economic Decisions

Experts from the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities and Morris campuses have proven in a recent study that people with a higher measure of cognitive abilities than the average are more likely to take better economic decisions, at least in some cases. The new research, which focused on about 1,000 trainee truc...

28 April 2009
03:28 GMT


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