Is something rewiring your brain, remapping circuits and reprogramming ad strategies, as the advertising industry moves deeper into automation? A new paper from Microsoft Research finds that humans ...

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

Critical thinking forms an essential pillar of modern education, equipping learners with the ability to analyse information, assess evidence and synthesise diverse perspectives. This skill is ...

A team of neurologists and AI specialists at MIT's Media Lab has led a study looking into the brain impacts of large language model (LLM) use among people who engage with them for study or work. They ...

A study finds that gen AI tools may be "encouraging over-reliance on AI, with confidence in the tool often diminishing independent problem-solving." Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and ...

Critical thinking is the highly prized, hard-to-master process of rigorously analyzing disparate data, patterns and observations using a mix of intellectual discipline, experience and logically sound ...

Knowledge workers who used genAI tools found it could boost efficiency — at the risk of diminishing critical thinking and problem-solving skills, according to research from Carnegie Mellon and ...

I recently asked a fellow academic, in conversation, how they try to integrate critical thinking into their classroom, and they replied that they don’t have "much time for that kind of thing." I ...

Critical thinking springs from the notion of reflective thought proposed by Dewey (1933), who borrowed from the work of philosophers such as William James and Charles Peirce. Reflective thought was ...

Students raise their hands to answer a teacher's question at the KIPP Academy in the South Bronx, part of a network of public middle schools that is becoming a model for educating poor children. KIPP ...

Bangladesh routinely laments the absence of critical thinking among its graduates, yet rarely confronts the systemic failures that prevent its development. From rote-driven primary schooling to theory ...