Experiential Dissonance and Interpretation-Aware Systems - Beyond Behavioural Proxies in Human-System Interaction

Interactive systems should not only model user behaviour. They should also model the reliability of their own interpretations ...

Surviving in a poisoned land: Chernobyl's wildlife is different, but not in the ways you might think

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

Biohacker claims to have sequenced their own genome at the kitchen table with M3 Ultra Mac Studio

A tinkerer has sequenced their own genome at home, hoping to uncover secrets behind a family history of autoimmune disease.

A vast Indigenous American genome map exposes lost migrations, ancient ancestry and more than a million new variants

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...
Communications of the ACMOpinion

Rolling in the Deep of Cognitive and AI Biases

To address AI bias at its roots, we must understand the human heuristics that shape it. Unlike prior frameworks that focus ...

We think norms spread by imitation, but one deceptively simple rule tells a more human story

A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding ...
eLife

Reassessing prediction in the brain: Pre-onset neural encoding during natural listening does not reflect pre-activation

This study presents valuable findings by reanalyzing previously published MEG and ECoG datasets to challenge the predictive nature of pre-onset neural encoding effects. The evidence supporting the ...
eLife

Fast-ripples are emergent properties of neuronal networks

This valuable study addressed a key question in epilepsy research: whether the recordings of very fast oscillations in the brain (>250Hz, fast ripples) reflect underlying pathology or might be a ...