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Learning Another Language May Be One of the Best Ways to Keep Your Brain Healthy as You Age

Research increasingly suggests that language learning and bilingualism can offer cognitive benefits – including for older ...

Does Foreign Language Learning Have an "Irreplaceable" Effect on Cognitive Function? — Insights from Neuroscience

Introduction"Learning a foreign language makes you smarter"—this claim is encountered in various settings, from ...

Reading, socialising and doing puzzles can help preserve cognitive health – large study shows

Puzzles, brain-training games and hobbies have long been said to stave off cognitive decline. But while some research has shown that intensive brain-training programmes done over several weeks can ...
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AI Model Reads Like a Human Brain, Tracking Hidden Cognitive States Word by Word

Researchers have built a brain-inspired model that uses a large language model to trace five hidden cognitive states as ...
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Troubled Cholesterol Particle L5 Linked to Fading Language Networks in Early Cognitive Decline

A new GeroScience study finds that elevated levels of electronegative L5 cholesterol are associated with weakened ...

AI behaves more like a brain than a database – cognitive science’s role in its origin story helps explain why

When people think about what ChatGPT or other large language models are doing behind the scenes, it’s common to reach for the language of computing. You might assume there is a database, or a logical ...