Watching a baby babble, play and interact with others can provide useful insight into what their cognitive ability might be like decades later, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research ...

Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science are very much interrelated. AI was first coined in a proposal for a workshop that took place in the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College. The workshop ...

It's one of the great paradoxes of evolution. Humans have demonstrated that having large brains are key to our evolutionary success, and yet such brains are extremely rare in other animals. Most get ...

A new study found a link between general intelligence and knowledge of this popular alcoholic drink.

In the scientific realm of psychiatry, researchers often navigate more unknowns than knowns. Despite decades of scientific leaps and technological breakthroughs, the brain's complexity remains elusive ...

An international collaborative study provides findings on the neural basis of intelligence, otherwise known as general cognitive ability (IQ). An international collaborative study led by researchers ...

What do you think when someone asks you about empathy? Do you struggle to find its meaning or does it come to you naturally? In the age of artificial intelligence, do our AI systems need empathy? If ...