
Yasemin Saplakoglu
Biology Writer at Quanta Magazine
Biology writer @QuantaMagazine. Writes tweet, laughs to self, deletes. @UCSC_scicom & @UConn Alum
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1 week ago |
quantamagazine.org | Ariel Bleicher |Yasemin Saplakoglu |Veronique Greenwood |Viviane Callier
Like many proud parents, David Ginty has decorated his office with pictures of his genetic creations. There’s the prickly one sporting a spiked collar and the wannabe cowboy twirling a lasso. There’s the dramatic one, always reacting to the slightest provocation; the observant one that notices every detail; the golden child Ginty loves to boast about. “They’re like a family,” he said.
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2 weeks ago |
quantamagazine.org | Yasemin Saplakoglu
The findings emerge in a world enraptured by artificial forms of intelligence, and they could teach us something about how complex circuits in our own brains evolved. Perhaps most importantly, they could help us step “away from the idea that we are the best creatures in the world,” said Niklas Kempynck, a graduate student at KU Leuven who led one of the studies. “We are not this optimal solution to intelligence.”Birds got there too, on their own.
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1 month ago |
terra.com.br | Yasemin Saplakoglu
Imagine que você está no primeiro encontro com um cara, tomando um martini no bar. Você come uma azeitona e pacientemente o escuta falar sobre seu trabalho no banco. Seu cérebro processa essa cena dividindo todas essas coisas em conceitos. Bar. Encontro. Martini. Azeitona. Banco. No fundo do seu cérebro, neurônios conhecidos como células conceituais estão trabalhando a todo vapor. Você pode ter células conceituais que disparam para martinis, mas não para azeitonas.
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1 month ago |
estadao.com.br | Yasemin Saplakoglu
Imagine que você está no primeiro encontro com um cara, tomando um martini no bar. Você come uma azeitona e pacientemente o escuta falar sobre seu trabalho no banco. Seu cérebro processa essa cena dividindo todas essas coisas em conceitos. Bar. Encontro. Martini. Azeitona. Banco. No fundo do seu cérebro, neurônios conhecidos como células conceituais estão trabalhando a todo vapor. Você pode ter células conceituais que disparam para martinis, mas não para azeitonas.
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2 months ago |
quantamagazine.org | Ingrid Wickelgren |Asher Elbein |Yasemin Saplakoglu
Introduction After shuffling the cards in a standard 52-card deck, Alex Mullen, a three-time world memory champion, can memorize their order in under 20 seconds. As he flips though the cards, he takes a mental walk through a house. At each point in his journey — the mailbox, front door, staircase and so on — he attaches a card. To recall the cards, he relives the trip.
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RT @QuantaMagazine: “The biggest misconception about de-extinction is that it’s possible,” evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro told @yasemi…

RT @PhyloBrain: A fantastic piece in @QuantaMagazine tracing the long-standing debate on vertebrate intelligence. Grateful our work could…

RT @hannahjwaters: Took 1.5 years at Quanta to assign my first bird story 😇 @yasemin_sap's beautiful writing about the evolution of intel…