cognitive science
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Systems & complexity
Can online social media overcome the cognitive constraint on the size of social networks?
The social brain hypothesis suggests that there is a characteristic size for human social networks. Has online social networking enabled…
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is no longer a sci-fi buzzword – it’s being adopted by businesses
In what is being called the start of the cognitive era for computing, IBM’s new Watson computer program is able…
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Brain power
Using meditation to shape the self
In a recent journal paper in Trends in Cognitive Science, a typology of meditation techniques was divided into three high-level categories.…
