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Audiences will get a chance to see two animated shorts – Viscous by Brad Pattullo and AMYGDALA by Andrea Russo – and hear ...
A new study tested how humans and ChatGPT understand color metaphors, revealing key differences between lived experience and language-based AI.
Empathy Day, which is on 12 June, aims to help everyone understand and experience the transformational power of empathy through stories. To help young people learn more about empathy and put it ...
While loss of empathy has been the focus of much research from the scientific community, the precise brain mechanisms underlying the loss of empathy in frontotemporal dementia remain unclear.
The '90s has some amazing anime, but some of its best were actually kids anime and these 10 are very underrated series that ...
A study using brain imaging in mice reveals that the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) encodes empathic responses to others' pain. ACC neurons projecting to the periaqueductal gray (PAG) drive affective ...
Empathy has its limits and liabilities, many of which Rigney observes. This is especially the case when empathy is treated as the north star for justice, truth, goodness, and for the crafting of ...
Putting humans into a state of suspended animation has been a sci-fi aspiration for decades. In Ridley Scott’s iconic film Alien, the crew of the Nostromo emerge from cryo-pods as they approach ...
Guillermo responds with a big shrug of his shoulders. “I don’t want to watch brain rot even if it’s animated,” he says firmly. That’s an important detail because Guillermo is an aspiring video ...
That powerful symbol of empathy and compassion illustrated what Mobley said was native to all humans, and was a key part of our evolution. “It’s in the brain. We know it’s in the brain.