Tugade and Fredrickson (2004) state that resilience is about having “the capacity to move on in a positive way from negative, traumatic or stressful experiences.” Resilience is regarded as valuable ...

Simply sign up to the Education myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Like jumping from a bridge.” That was how one employee at French telecoms operator Orange described a skills programme ...

A number of scientists have strongly criticized the promotion of IIT as a genuine “theory of consciousness,” while still supporting its substantial scientific contributions. In this regard, I have ...

Researchers showed that large language models use a small, specialized subset of parameters to perform Theory-of-Mind reasoning, despite activating their full network for every task.

Imagine you're watching a movie, in which a character puts a chocolate bar in a box, closes the box and leaves the room. Another person, also in the room, moves the bar from a box to a desk drawer.

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Human brains are superior to LLMs in energy efficiency, but the models can become better at using their networks ...

Do you believe that life exists on other planets? Well, here's an even more mysterious idea: Have you ever considered that there might have been another civilisation with advanced technology on planet ...