Posts Tagged with ‘cognition’

Today Cognition, creator of an already much-discussed natural language processing technology, is announcing release of its new semantic map which is the largest one ever created for English language. For you to imagine the size of the map, it includes more than 10 million semantic connections, over 4 million semantic contexts, more than 536,000 word senses, 75,000 concept classes, 7,500 nodes in the classification scheme, and 506,000 word stems:

It took the scientific team in Cognition 23 years (and over 300 [...]

About a month ago I began testing a fascinating new beta called Lumosity. The service is designed to exercise user's brains with a series of games that promote cognitive skills. According to Stanford neuroscience graduate and Co-Founder Michael Scanlon these exercises build cognitive ability in processing speed, cognitive control and attention. Playing these fun and simple games for as little as 30 minutes a day can promote quicker thinking, improve memory, increase alertness, improve concentration and even elevate a user's mood. [...]