Talking to oneself is a trait which feels inherently human. Our inner monologs help us organize our thoughts, make decisions, ...

Allowing AI to talk to itself helps it learn faster and adapt more easily. This inner speech, combined with working memory, lets AI generalize skills using far less data.

Working memory is a critical cognitive system that temporarily maintains and manipulates information for complex tasks such as reasoning, learning, and decision-making. It functions as an interface ...

Children across America are struggling to focus. Teachers report shorter attention spans, while parents watch their kids battle distractions. Academic performance continues to decline despite endless ...

Talking to yourself feels deeply human. Inner speech helps you plan, reflect, and solve problems without saying a word.

Working memory is what allows humans to juggle different pieces of information in short-term scenarios, like making a mental grocery list and then going shopping or remembering and then dialing a ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...

In a new study published in Neuron titled, “Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms,” researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of ...

Timothy Vickery, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. The cognitive neuroscientist is primarily interested in visual ...

Decades of research has found that exercise is helpful for overall health and fitness, doing everything from lowering your risk of heart disease to helping you sleep better. According to a new study, ...