Overfitting is a crucial concern in machine learning, where an unnecessarily complex model closely captures the details of its training data but fails to generalize to new inputs...
This article reports on research conducted with 28 experts in Bible education in Israel, where Hebrew Bible is a required subject in the curriculum...Through information gained in in-depth interviews with 19 of these experts, and a Delphi survey administered to 17 of these experts, we report on whether experts were in favour of teaching about the interface of evolution and Genesis in Bible class...
From the moment we are born, and even before, in the womb, and until our last breath, our bodies move all the time. Adaptive behaviors necessarily depend not only on the successful integration of multisensory bodily signals but also on how we move our bodies in the world. This paper considers the notion of embodied selfhood...
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana subsp. coracana) (2n = 4x = 36) remains one of the most important millets in East Africa (EA), where it was most likely domesticated along the highlands of Ethiopia and Uganda. The goal of the current study was to understand the population structure...
This work introduces an intracranial EEG (iEEG) dataset collected as part of an adversarial collaboration between proponents of two theories of consciousness: Global Neuronal Workspace Theory and Integrated Information Theory. The data were recorded from 38 patients undergoing intracranial monitoring of epileptic seizures across three research centers...
Humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) have long been known to generate bubbles by physically striking the air–water interface or releasing air through the blowholes or mouth. Melville was the first to note this propensity by penning “humpbacks churned the water … making more gay foam and whitewater than any of them.” In the Norwegian Sea, a whaleship observed a humpback whale...
This work describes an as yet unidentified bias relevant to comparative cognition research: WEIRD-centrism. This bias leads us to take as the gold standard the practices, capacities, or concepts of WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) humans, that is, humans who grew up in WEIRD societies and whose behavior has been shaped...
A growing body of research suggests that the behaviours and experiences of autistic and non-autistic people are influenced by whether they are interacting with someone of the same or different diagnostic status. However, little is known about the relationship between these behaviours and the experiences of rapport...
Autism is clinically defined by social communication deficits, suggesting that autistic people may be less effective at sharing information, particularly with one another. However, recent research indicates that neurotype mismatches, rather than autism itself, degrade information sharing. Here, using the diffusion chain method...
Emotions mediate a wide range of cognitive functions, including memory, attention, and decision making. Studies of emotion in non-human animals have typically focused on negative emotions—like fear—that have clear behavioral correlates (e.g., freezing or retreating). To address this one-sided treatment...