Learning can change how the brain organizes sensory information, but researchers are still working out what those changes ...

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Past psychology and behavioral science studies have identified various ways in which people's acquisition of new knowledge can be disrupted. One of these, known as interference, occurs when humans are ...

One of the challenges with existing fraud detection systems is that they are primarily rules-based, using predefined notions of what constitutes fraudulent or suspicious behavior. The problem is that ...

Detecting patterns is an important part of how humans learn and make decisions. Now, researchers have seen what is happening in people's brains as they first find patterns in information they are ...

Machine learning has infiltrated much of the technology consumers and businesses use on a regular basis. Widespread adoption of this subset of artificial intelligence may have seemed futuristic not ...

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