Tag: cognitive

We all have hidden prejudices – here’s how to override them

Confronting our unconscious biases requires concerted effort. Fortunately, there are simple things everyone can do to avoid the cognitive shortcuts that underpin them Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2252873-we-all-have-hidden-prejudices-heres-how-to-override-them/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Children Raised In Greener Areas Have Higher IQ, Study Finds

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Growing up in a greener urban environment boosts children’s intelligence and lowers levels of difficult behavior, a study has found. The analysis of more than 600 children aged 10-15 showed a 3% increase in the greenness of their neighborhood raised their IQ score by an average of 2.6 points. The effect was…

Scientist Proposes a New Programming Language For Teaching Coding (and Python)

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp tells us Netherlands-based scientist Felienne Hermans shared a radical idea at the 2020 ACM International Computing Education Research Conference for a new programming language to be used for teaching coding — and for teaching Python:
Hermans — an associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science — observes In her ICER presentation on Hedy that we…

Neural Network-Enhanced ‘Cognitive Radio’ Communicates With ISS

IEEE Spectrum reports:
There’s still plenty that can disrupt radio communications… Rather than waiting for a human on Earth to tell the radio how to adapt its systems — during which the commands may have already become outdated — a radio with a neural network can do it on the fly. Such a device is called a cognitive radio. Its neural network…

Your ‘Doomscrolling’ Breeds Anxiety. Health Experts Offer Ways To Stop the Cycle

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: So many of us do it: You get into bed, turn off the lights, and look at your phone to check Twitter one more time. You see that coronavirus infections are up. Maybe your kids can’t go back to school. The economy is cratering. Still, you incessantly scroll though bottomless doom-and-gloom news for…

Learn Four Techniques to Help You Prepare for the Unexpected

By Jane McGonigal, PhD, Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and lead instructor of the Futures Thinking Specialization If the year 2020 has shown us anything so far, it’s that we all need to get better at expecting the unexpected.  The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work, […]
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Moderate Drinking May Improve Cognitive Health for Older Adults, Study Says

“A new study found low to moderate drinking may improve cognitive function for White middle-aged or older adults,” reports CNN: The findings support prior research which found that, generally, one standard drink a day for women and two a day for men — which is the US guidance — appears to offer some cognitive benefits… “There is now a lot of…

Exotic electron-electron interactions found unnecessary for conduction in nickelates

Some metal oxides, such as nickelates, have a tuneable resistivity, which makes them an interesting material for adaptable electronics and cognitive computing. These materials can change their nature from metallic to insulating. How exactly this metal-insulator transition takes place is a topic of great interest in condensed matter physics. However, even the metallic behavior in nickelates seems unusual. Scientists from the…

Siri, What Time Is It in London?

John Gruber, writing at Daring Fireball: Nilay Patel [Editor-in-Chief of news website The Verge] asked this of Siri on his Apple Watch. After too long of a wait, he got the correct answer — for London Canada. I tried on my iPhone and got the same result. Stupid and slow is heck of a combination. You can argue that giving the…