We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...

We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...

Junior Theoretical Neuroscientists Workshop on Simons Foundation

Essays on neuroscience

The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

Hocker et al. demonstrate a method for training recurrent neural networks, which they call ‘kindergarten curriculum learning’, involving pretraining on simple cognitive tasks to improve learning effic...

A neuroscientist’s bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time—brain and mental illnesses

Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza

Auteur director’s latest documentary runs the gamut from BCIs and how we construct reality to whether fish can dream.

Yang et al. develop the Language of Problem Solving (LoPS) framework to study problem-solving structure in humans and monkeys playing Pac-Man. Humans show more complex, hierarchical grammar than monkeys. Grammar complexity correlates with performance and evolves during learning, providing insights into the structure and evolution of problem solving.

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an