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Children rapidly acquire an ability for language during early development. One theory, called iterated learning, posits that language evolves over generations to become more structured. This structure ...

An Archaemenian clay tablet written in the Elamite scripts is shown at Iran’s National Museum in Tehran. Credit: Behrouz Mahri, AFP For more than a century, scholars stared at the same strange marks ...

Learn how to solve problems using linear programming. A linear programming problem involves finding the maximum or minimum value of an equation, called the objective functions, subject to a system of ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

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Investigating task- and stimulus-dependent connectivity is key to understanding how the interactions between brain regions underpin complex cognitive processes. Yet, the connections identified depend ...

Understanding the mechanism of how neural networks learn features from data is a fundamental problem in machine learning. Our work explicitly connects the mechanism of neural feature learning to a ...