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Paranoia may beâin partâa visual problem
Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new Yale study finds evidence that they might.
When completing a visual perception task, in which participants had to identify whether one moving dot was chasing another moving dot, those with greater tendencies toward paranoid thinking (believing others intend them harm) and teleological thinking (ascribing excessive meaning and purpose to events) performed worse than their counterparts, the study found. Those individuals more oftenâand confidentlyâclaimed one dot was chasing the other when it wasnât.
The findings, published in the journal Communications Psychology, suggest that in the future, testing for illnesses like schizophrenia could be done with a simple eye test.
Six-month-old infants use cross-modal synchrony to identify novel communicative signals
Just as humans can use the taps of Morse Code or the patterns of smoke signals to communicate precise messages, infants show a remarkable flexibility to interpret nonlinguistic signals to aid their learning.
But what conditions are required for babies to elevate new nonlinguistic signals in this way? And how early can they do so?
Sandra Waxman, the studyâs senior author, and her colleagues discovered that infants as young as six months old were able to harness nonlinguistic signals for learning, a surprising finding because at this age, babies are just beginning to acquire their own language.
The evidence revealed the conditions under which babies conferred communicative status to the novel tone signals and then recruited them to successfully complete a learning task. Infantsâ success did not depend on whether the signals were produced by humans, or in a give-and-take interchange between individuals. Instead, what mattered was cross-modal temporal synchrony, in other words, if the method of signal delivery included synchronized sound and movement.
Six-month-old infants use cross-modal synchrony to identify novel communicative signals. Sci Rep 14, 27859 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78801-9
TSMC Details Its High-End â2nm Processâ, Revealing Massive Performance & Efficiency Improvements
TSMC has revealed additional details about its â2nm N2â technology, disclosing massive advancements in yield rates and performance metrics.
TSMCâs âN2 Nanosheetâ Implementation Has Brought A Huge Rise In Node Performance, Showing Immense Potential
The Taiwan giantâs 2nm process is one of the most anticipated developments in the market, mainly since the node is expected to bring in gigantic leaps in performance and efficiency results. The process is likely to come under mass production by H2 2025, and we now have information about the performance of 2nm when stacked against previous-gen counterparts, credit to the Taiwan giantâs briefing at the IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco, where 2nm ânanosheetsâ were the highlight of the briefing.
Histotripsy: Destroying cancer tumors with sound waves
âThe future of medicine is the medicine of frequencies.â â Albert Einstein.
Imagine a future where cancerous tumors inside the body could be destroyed using only sound waves. Well⊠the future is now. And itâs called histotripsy.
Histotripsy is a non-invasive process that uses sound waves to completely eliminate cancer tumors. Like radiation therapy, doctors point an ultrasound device at your tumor and âzap it.â But unlike radiotherapy, there is no cancer-causing radiation or heat involved, tumors can be destroyed in one treatment, there is minimal damage to surrounding tissue, a low rate of complications, faster recovery time, and it has been shown to activate immune cells to identify and target any remaining cancer cells in the body.
