Astrocyte cells critical for learning skilled movements — ScienceDaily

From steering a car to swinging a tennis racket, we learn to execute all kinds of skilled movements during our lives. You might think this learning is only implemented by…

Children lost about 35% of a normal school year’s worth of learning during the pandemic, study suggests

CNN  —  A new paper adds to the mounting evidence that school-age children across the globe experienced significant setbacks in their learning progress during the Covid-19 pandemic. Students “lost out…

Researchers have combined low-power chip design, machine learning algorithms, and soft implantable electrodes to produce a neural interface that can identify and suppress symptoms of various neurological disorders. — ScienceDaily

Mahsa Shoaran of the Integrated Neurotechnologies Laboratory in the School of Engineering collaborated with Stéphanie Lacour in the Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces to develop NeuralTree: a closed-loop neuromodulation system-on-chip…

Meta Open-Sources Holistic Trace Analysis (HTA): A Performance Analysis Tool That is Fully Scalable to Support State-of-the-Art Machine Learning ML Workloads

Machine learning and deep learning models perform remarkably on various tasks thanks to recent technological developments. However, this outstanding performance is not without a cost. Machine learning models often require…

Machine learning method improves cell identity understanding — ScienceDaily

When genes are activated and expressed, they show patterns in cells that are similar in type and function across tissues and organs. Discovering these patterns improves our understanding of cells…

Machine learning approach helps hit 100% prediction rate — ScienceDaily

A research team led by Tao Sun, associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Virginia, has made new discoveries that can expand additive manufacturing in aerospace…

Editor’s note: Seeing learning as ubiquitous in 2023

It’s going to be another busy year for the learning and development function. With this firmly in mind, the TrainingZone team are gearing up to bring you progressive, timely, distinct…

Using machine learning to better understand how water behaves — ScienceDaily

Water has puzzled scientists for decades. For the last 30 years or so, they have theorized that when cooled down to a very low temperature like -100C, water might be…

The study found that machine learning techniques improved diet prediction by 10-20% — ScienceDaily

When it comes to studying food and diet, it’s difficult to know what people are eating — let alone their risk of disease caused by what they eat. Doctors and…

In-person learning helped narrow reading gaps during pandemic — ScienceDaily

A study led by a North Carolina State University researcher found that although there were steep learning losses in reading for elementary school students during the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person learning…