Rethinking how our brains use categories to make sense of the world
Researchers propose a challenge to the traditional view of how the brain uses its ability to categorize.
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Researchers propose a challenge to the traditional view of how the brain uses its ability to categorize.
A new study provides the first direct neural evidence of "compositional generalization," the cognitive capacity to recombine familiar elements into novel ideas.
Scientists have discovered that the brain’s sensory systems play a much larger role in speech learning than previously believed. New research suggests that learning to speak a new...
A new study reveals that AI models with over 2 billion parameters develop mathematical "brain states" that distinguish between possible and impossible events.
New research challenges traditional views of how the brain makes decisions, suggesting that even its earliest regions play a more active and dynamic role than previously thought. N...
This is Jessica. Maybe one of the biggest crimes of academic computer science (besides routinely ignoring prior work and making up social science to suit our needs) is our toleranc...
A landmark paper argues that the brain categorizes the world based on action plans rather than sensory prototypes. This predictive approach allows the brain to meet the body's need...
Last week, I listened to a fascinating talk by K. Melton on cognitive security, cognitive hacking, and reality pentesting. The slides from the talk are here, but—even better—Menton...
Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.
From Bartlett’s confabulation to Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve — six cognitive models mapped onto LLMs and agent memory architectures.Continue reading on Medium »
A collaborative project has released EVApeCognition, the world's largest dataset on great ape intelligence.
A three-year-old is watching a cartoon. On screen, a cloud character stuffs a pelican chick with increasingly dangerous animals; the pelican, visibly uncomfortable, tolerates it. T...
New research challenges the long-held belief that the brain makes decisions in a simple, top-down hierarchy. By discovering decision-making signals in the primary somatosensory cor...
MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt investigates how the ways we communicate can shape our views of the world.
For decades, scientists believed that associative learning – understanding that two events are linked to each other, like a stimulus and a response – required at least some form of...
A scoping review finds the Allen Cognitive Level Screen reliably measures integrated brain function, not isolated cognitive abilities.
Author Christopher Summerfield engages seriously with skeptics who claim that large language models are really thinking.
Your agent doesn’t need a smarter model. It needs memory. The kind that persists, calibrates confidence, and corrects itself.Continue reading on Medium »
Are modern neuroscientists genuinely measuring the spark of subjective experience, or are they merely tracking the mechanical gears of data processing? A landmark critical analysis...
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A neuroscientist's experiment with AI across four languages reveals what multilingual minds carry that no algorithm ever will.
Computers specialize in a narrow style of information management or "knowing." Knowledge-making is much broader than this.
Research shows that consciousness is rooted in living intelligence. The future of our mental health depends on the convergence of two types of intelligence: natural and artificial.
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