Affective computing could also identify which students are breezing through a subject, so they can be further challenged. Companies such as Intel are even experimenting with ways that affective ...

And I think psychology will be a potentially crucial science for AGI," says Robert Johansson. Whether humanity will succeed in creating its intellectual equal within five years remains to be seen.

Behaviorism in educational psychology is the idea that all human behaviors stem from interactions with the environment, and modifying the environment will result in different behaviors ...

However, as Sarah Rose Cavanagh of Simmons University writes in her 2016 book The Spark of Learning, emotion and cognition are intertwined at the biological level. Humans need emotion for motivation ...

WASHINGTON — A machine learning model accurately predicted seasonal affective disorder and depressive symptoms and identified sex-specific clock genes associated with these symptoms, according ...

G&J reviewed the literature to identify animals that probably have the characteristics of this kind of learning, and, therefore, by their definition, are minimally conscious.

By embracing a broader definition of learning that includes any behavioral adaption developed in response to regular features of an environment, researchers could better collaborate across the ...

Developing a precise definition of learning can help scientists communicate existing findings and promote new interdisciplinary research, De Houwer and Hughes conclude.