Cognition & AI
Brains Improve by Deleting Stuff
Why pruning, compression, and developmental timing matter more than simply adding more — for kids' brains and smarter AI.
Tag: Neural Plasticity
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Cognition & AI
Your Child Isn’t a Factory Reset
Why children raised in the same home still develop differently — and what epigenetics, critical periods, and AI training can teach parents about individuality.
Neuroscience & AI
AI Never Sleeps. That's the Problem.
The brain's most powerful learning algorithm runs while you're unconscious. Sleep isn't a pause in learning — it's the half we've been ignoring. Here's why AI's failure to sleep may be its deepest architectural flaw.
Neuroscience & AI
The Brain Prunes. AI Hoards.
Around age two, you hit peak synaptic density. Then your brain spends the next two decades deleting connections on purpose. AI does the opposite — and that might be exactly the problem.
Neuroscience & AI
Born Pre-loaded
Babies know more than they should. AI knows less than it seems. The nativism-empiricism debate — is the mind born equipped or built from scratch? — turns out to be the organizing fault line of both developmental neuroscience and modern AI architecture.
Neuroscience & AI
The Window Closes: What Critical Periods in Child Development Tell Us About AI's Plasticity Problem
Children have a supercharged window for learning motor skills, language, and movement. Deep neural networks face a strikingly similar problem — and the solutions emerging from neuroscience might hold the key.
