Aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, poses a serious challenge to an influential theory of abstract thought in ...

Summary: Researchers argue that aphantasia, the complete inability to voluntarily form mental images, fundamentally shatters Hume’s theory and modern imagistic models of cognition. Individuals with ...

Have you ever looked at an abstract painting and wondered what the artist was thinking? A splash of color on a canvas can ...

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Reading a primary-research paper can feel like trying to decipher an ancient text, or at least it has in my career. From a foundation in biomedical science and medicine, I am now a trainee in ...

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Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarise a paper, clean up a dataset or draft an abstract. Researchers were still in charge of the thinking. That ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Citations in academic papers are intended to ground research in the ...

To date, the main role of AI in scientific research has been to assist with narrow tasks such as discovering chemical structures, analyzing data or predicting protein shapes. But now, the technology ...

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