Paul Kay Published in PNAS

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The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has published a study by AI researcher Paul Kay that shows that learning new color names causes rapid growth in grey matter in the adult brain. Kay and his collaborators from Beijing and Hong Kong found that when adults learned new subcategories of green and blue, the part of the brain responsible for color vision grew rapidly. The article is Kay's tenth in PNAS in the last several years. Read the article here >>