Visual illusions play tricks with the human brain and test your attentiveness. In today’s visual illusion IQ test, the ...

Large amounts of screen time for toddlers is linked to anxiety during their teenage years, according to a new study.

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New research following children for more than a decade links high screen exposure before age two to accelerated brain maturation, slower decision-making, and increased anxiety by adolescence.

As a growing number of schools ban phones because of concerns about how they could affect mental health, a new study warns ...

This study found that screen time actually accelerated maturation of visual and cognitive control networks. That might seem ...

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A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

A biologically grounded computational model built to mimic real neural circuits, not trained on animal data, learned a visual categorization task just as actual lab animals do, matching their accuracy ...

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