Humans have a good memory, but it doesn't compare to some of our animal counterparts. Indeed, birds are able to follow the same migration routes, elephants retain watering holes, and dogs retain ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Ken Forbus is closing the gap between humans and machines. Using cognitive science theories, Forbus and his collaborators have developed a model that could give computers ...

UCLA researchers’ new study says the GPT-3 language model can reason with analogy, but they can’t say the answers aren’t already in the training data. Reading time 4 minutes The latest in a slew of ...

Using the power of analogy, a new structure-mapping engine gives computers the ability to reason like humans and even solve moral dilemmas. Northwestern University's Ken Forbus is closing the gap ...

Analogical reasoning is the cognitive process by which individuals discern correspondences between disparate domains, identifying shared relational structures to support learning, problem solving and ...

A couple years ago I wrote about an effort to emulate analogous thinking in order to tackle difficult problems and drive innovation. The research, conducted by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon ...

A short daytime nap known as a ' power nap ' is said to improve memory and cognitive function, and in recent years has been attracting attention from businessmen seeking to improve their productivity.