Artificial intelligence may write award-winning essays and diagnose disease with remarkable accuracy, but biological brains still hold the upper hand in at least one crucial domain: flexibility.

The human brain not only remembers who other people are, it also uses basic mathematical functions called basis functions to store information about how people interact — for example, how they work ...

Our brains have an extraordinary ability to adapt and learn, a process known as neuroplasticity. From navigating a new city to mastering a new skill, neuroplasticity allows us to reshape our neural ...

Our brains use basic 'building blocks' of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study. Our brains use basic 'building ...

If you’re not using AI tools like NotebookLM to capture knowledge fields and build out your own “brain,” you’re missing out in a big way. The idea of a “second brain” has inspired millions of people ...

Most children in elementary school begin learning about the body and how it works; however, research reveals that parents and teachers tend to leave out information about the brain. In fact, one study ...

Kelly O’Brien leads the Business Collaborative for Brain Health at UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, advancing brain health in workplaces and policy. Take a systems-level approach to wellness. The good news is ...

Next Army is a collaborative series by CSIS Futures Lab and the Modern War Institute launched in honor of the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday and the Army Transformation Initiative (ATI). The commentaries ...

The military’s AI strategy is starting to resemble a bad dating app: lots of swipes, few lasting matches. The Trump administration’s new AI Action Plan offers potential to take things to the next ...

Princeton researchers found that a primate’s prefrontal cortex reuses modular “cognitive Legos” to solve related tasks, giving biological brains a flexibility that AI still lacks. The insight could ...