Artificial intelligence usage may have deleterious effects on brain activity, according to a new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. The study tested the brain activity of ...

What Shaw and Nave did was give 1,372 people a test, and access to an AI chatbot for help—with the twist that the chatbot ...

On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review ...

A 2025 study by the MIT Media Lab found students who used AI showed lower brain activity and weaker academic performance. Xu ...

Heavy users of artificial intelligence report being overwhelmed by trying to keep up with and on top of the technology ...

In today’s rapidly evolving artificial intelligence landscape, large language models have demonstrated extraordinary ...

AI use can speed up many tasks; for example, analyzing complex data. However, using AI to complete a task at work or for a hobby could lead to so-called cognitive offloading. Cognitive offloading ...

C al Newport has been described as the “man who never procrastinates,” so I expected him to be punctual for our interview. He didn’t disappoint. He logged onto Zoom from his podcast studio in Takoma ...

I want to share a story of struggle. Actually, two kinds of struggle. My father completed his doctorate at the University of ...

Faculty speakers at Purdue’s Interdisciplinary Conference in Cognitive Science said the university’s new Cognition, Agency, ...

Cognitive science is, by its very nature, a field that requires the simultaneous presence of psychology, neuroscience, ...