Cognitive science

Tomas Bjorkman will be among the speakers at next month's Singularity Summit in Athens.

Software and education go hand in hand, and that isn't even touching the fact that, for today's youth to thrive, they will need to learn how to code. Educators around the world are looking at ways that digital interfaces actually help improve the learning process. Games are even being considered to boost the learning curve.

More and more I am convinced that "mythistorima" (the Greek word for a novel) is the best way to describe our modern world. As one of the founders of modern Greece, Adamantios Korais, explained, it is "a fictional but plausible story," which exactly defines the charade of contemporary politics - not just in Greece but throughout the European Union and Donald Trump's USA.

Canadian scientists have found that video games improve memory and brain activity in elderly people, Life magazine said.

For the study, 33 people aged 55 to 75 were selected. They were divided into three groups on equal terms - the participants in the first played the Super Mario video game, in the second played the piano, and in the third did not do any entertainment activities.

Have you ever thought about what life would be like without the internet? Given the volume of time people spend immersed in their smartphones, iPads and laptops, an unconnected life is pretty hard to imagine these days.

New research suggests bouts of forgetfulness could be caused by a safety mechanism in the brain designed to make sure we’re not overloaded with information. In other words, it’s a healthy part of the brain’s operation.

THEORY OF CONNECTIVITY

The human brain is the most sophisticated organ in the human body. The things that the brain can do, and how it does them, have even inspired a model of artificial intelligence (AI). Now, a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience shows how human intelligence may be a product of a basic algorithm.

The Ministry of Education will not react and change curricula because of a petition seeking a review of evolution theory studies in Serbian schools.

Education Minister Mladen Sarcevic said this on Wednesday.

One does not need to look very hard to find out what it is that makes Greece a "special case," thwarting efforts to pull the country out of the persisting crisis. While being mired in stagnation, public debate revolves around the role and legacy of Greek communist and resistance hero Nikos Beloyiannis.

We all have things in our past that we’d like to forget – bad break-ups, traumatic experiences, loss. No matter how hard we try, these memories can continue to haunt us, occasionally triggering conditions such as anxiety, phobias, or post-traumatic stress disorder.