Brains are nothing like computers and human cognition operates in fundamentally different ways to current artificial intelligence systems. Human ...

Researchers have measured the thinking time of London taxi drivers—famous for their knowledge of more than 26,000 streets across the city—as part of a study into the future of AI route-mapping.

An international team of scientists, including a principal investigator in neuroscience from the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon, has analysed the ...

Researchers have measured the thinking time of London taxi drivers - famous for their knowledge of more than 26,000 streets across the city - as part ...

A study reveals that London taxi drivers prioritize complex and distant junctions during their initial "offline thinking" phase when planning routes, rather than sequentially considering streets.

The finding has implications for all of us, write Harvard physician-researchers Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena.

Characters claiming to have “photographic memory” on film or in television shows – or even in books – has been fairly common ...

There are approximately 48 million licensed drivers aged 65 and older in the United States, with around 17 percent of seniors suffering from mild cognitive impairment, according to a StudyFinds.org.

The story of London's "Number 1 Taxi driver". James 'Jimmy' Michael Howe was a veteran of the cab trade. He entered his profession in 1884, driving horse-drawn vehicles around London. He had the ...

The study, led by researchers at University College London (UCL), found that men lose about 17 minutes per cigarette, while women lose an average of 22 minutes. “For someone who smokes a pack of ...

A Hong Kong taxi driver has been arrested after his vehicle collided with another car in the early hours of New Year’s Day, leaving three dead and four others injured. A traffic accident in Hong ...