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Professor of Forest Planning at the University Institute of Sustainable Forest Management, University of Valladolid
Specialist in preventive medicine and public health at the University of Valladolid
Professor in the Department of Applied Physics and coordinator of the Atmospheric Pollution research group at the University of Valladolid
Director of the UVALAL (University of Valladolid Language Acquisition Lab)
Professor of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Valladolid
Distinguished Senior Researcher in the Department of Prehistory, Archaeology, Social Anthropology and Historiographic Sciences and Techniques at the University of Valladolid
Babies' brains specialise in their native language from pregnancy, according to a study carried out in France. The research team used encephalograms to measure the brain activity of 33 infants born to French-speaking mothers while listening to a story in French, English or Spanish. The results provide "the most compelling evidence to date that language experience already shapes the functional organization of the infant brain, even before birth," the authors write in Science Advances.
In a work published in the journal Nature, two researchers from New York University (USA) and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona claim to have demonstrated that an artificial neural network can have systematic generalization capabilities similar to human ones, that is, to learn new concepts and combine them with existing ones. This statement calls into question the 35-year-old idea that neural networks are not viable models of the human mind.
The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, today announced that face masks will no longer be compulsory indoors after Easter. The measure will come into force on 20 April. It will continue to be compulsory in public transport, health centres and residences, but the final details of the new scenario are not yet known.