> ... more than fifty students from universities around Boston were split into three groups... According to Nataliya Kosmyna, a research scientist at M.I.T. Media Lab and one of the co-authors of a new working paper documenting the experiment, the results from the analysis showed a dramatic discrepancy: subjects who used ChatGPT demonstrated less brain activity than either of the other groups. The analysis of the L.L.M. users showed fewer widespread connections between different parts of their brains; less alpha connectivity, which is associated with creativity; and less theta connectivity, which is associated with working memory.
Are we still treating low n-size fMRI studies as anything more than a clout-seeking exercise in confirmation bias?
Are we still treating low n-size fMRI studies as anything more than a clout-seeking exercise in confirmation bias?