A team of researchers from the University of Padua and the University of Trieste has observed surprising behaviors in jellyfish of the species Aurelia (moon jellyfish). The study, published in «Behavioral and Brain Sciences», explores the origin of curiosity and the possibility of cognition without
For the first time, Wavelet Transform Coherence (WTC), a powerful method widely used to study brain oscillations, human coordination, and animal synchrony, has been applied to plants. In their new article published in Scientific Reports by Nature, Bianca Bonato and colleagues reveal that pea plants
I am a bioengineer by training. I hold a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and a double degree in Computer Science from the University of Houston (USA).Over the years, I have developed a strong interest in comparative cognition, which led me to pursue an industrial
A new study conducted by researchers from the Department of General Psychology at the University of Padua and the University of Bergamo, published in “Psychological Research”, demonstrated that the placebo effect—induced by inactive “flickering” glasses—significantly improves reading abilities in
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is learning more than just words—it’s picking up on our feelings, too. In this study, multimodal large language models were tested to see if they could match human emotional reactions to a variety of visual scenes. The AI ratings correlated surprisingly well with the
