2023

What social media scrolling is doing to kids' brains

With most children and teenagers spending hours a day on a smartphone, CBC’s Christine Birak breaks down what research shows about how using ...

Announcements

Western Professor & PhD Candidates - earn national awards for outstanding leadership

Three members of the Western community are being recognized for their commitment to academic excellence, service and empowering ...

Computational brain sciences

New study identifies how AI fails to reproduce human vision

When a human spots a familiar face or an oncoming vehicle, it takes the brain a mere 100 milliseconds (about one-tenth of a second) to identify it ...

Computational brain sciences, Development and aging, Cognition and behaviour

AI tech exaggerates biases in facial age perception more than humans

But are there biases in AI processing? Researchers from Western University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) tested a large sample ...