Trends in cognitive sciences
Nov 15, 2023
Prominent accounts of sentient behavior depict brains as generative models of organismic interaction with the world, evincing intriguing similarities with current advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI). However, because they contend with...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Jul 11, 2023
Unlike classical artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI has the potential to transform scientists into intellectual cyborgs. Leveraging embodied cognition and extended mind theories can help us understand this scientific revolution. Despite ethi...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Jun 23, 2023
Johnston and Fusi recently investigated the emergence of disentangled representations when a neural network was trained to perform multiple simultaneous tasks. Such experiments explore the benefits of flexible representations and add to a growing fie...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Apr 1, 2023
Single-neuron-level explanations have been the gold standard in neuroscience for decades. Recently, however, neural-network-level explanations have become increasingly popular. This increase in popularity is driven by the fact that the analysis of ne...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Jan 10, 2023
Trends in cognitive sciences
Nov 26, 2022
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, while on the run, purportedly burned two million dollars in banknotes to keep his daughter warm. A stark reminder that, in life, circumstances and goals can quickly change, forcing us to reassess and modify our valu...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Nov 2, 2022
How can artificial neural networks capture the advanced cognitive abilities of pioneering scientists? I suggest they must learn to exploit human-invented tools of thought and human-like ways of using them, and must engage in explicit goal-directed pr...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Oct 19, 2022
How do humans, including toddlers, take knowledge from past experiences and apply this knowledge in new ways? Current approaches to human and artificial intelligence (AI) fail to offer satisfactory explanations. We suggest the explanation will be fou...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Oct 7, 2022
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become powerful and increasingly ubiquitous tools to model human cognition, and often produce similar behaviors. For example, with their hierarchical, brain-inspired organization of computations, DNNs apparently categ...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Sep 20, 2022
Predictive processing has become an influential framework in cognitive neuroscience. However, it often lacks specificity and direct empirical support. How can we probe the nature and limits of the predictive brain? We highlight the potential of recen...