A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Madison's Gary Lupyan suggests that the human brain may not be the computer as many presume as it often stumbles on even the simplest rule-based calculations, such as deciding whether a number is even or odd. Almost all adults understand that it's the last digit - and only the last digit -that determines whether a number is even, including participants in Lupyan's study. But that didn't keep them from mistaking a number ...Saturday, 21 December 2013
The Human Brain: Brilliant, but Not Really a Computer?
A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Madison's Gary Lupyan suggests that the human brain may not be the computer as many presume as it often stumbles on even the simplest rule-based calculations, such as deciding whether a number is even or odd. Almost all adults understand that it's the last digit - and only the last digit -that determines whether a number is even, including participants in Lupyan's study. But that didn't keep them from mistaking a number ...
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