Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
May 21, 2024
Deep learning has enabled major advances across most areas of artificial intelligence research. This remarkable progress extends beyond mere engineering achievements and holds significant relevance for the philosophy of cognitive science. Deep neural...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
Apr 24, 2024
This review article examines the extant literature on animism and anthropomorphism in infants and young children. A substantial body of work indicates that both infants and young children have a broad concept of what constitutes a sentient agent and ...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
Apr 24, 2024
The evolution of cognition can be understood in terms of a few major transitions-changes in the computational architecture of nervous systems that changed what cognitive capacities could be evolved by downstream lineages. We demonstrate how the idea ...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
Jul 5, 2023
Artificial life is a research field studying what processes and properties define life, based on a multidisciplinary approach spanning the physical, natural, and computational sciences. Artificial life aims to foster a comprehensive study of life bey...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
Sep 16, 2022
We have a wide breadth of computational tools available today that enable a more ethical approach to the study of human cognition and behavior. We argue that the use of computer models to study evolving ecosystems provides a rich source of inspiratio...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
Dec 20, 2021
How did grammar evolve? Perhaps a better way to ask the question is what kind of cognition is needed to enable grammar. The present analysis departs from the observation that linguistic communication is structured in terms of agents and patients, a r...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
Sep 18, 2020
Inner speech travels under many aliases: the inner voice, verbal thought, thinking in words, internal verbalization, "talking in your head," the "little voice in the head," and so on. It is both a familiar element of first-person experience and a psy...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
Nov 28, 2018
Advanced human-machine interfaces render robotic devices applicable to study and enhance human cognition. This turns robots into formidable neuroscientific tools to study processes such as the adaptation between a human operator and the operated robo...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
Dec 1, 2016
Understanding infant development is one of the great scientific challenges of contemporary science. In addressing this challenge, robots have proven useful as they allow experimenters to model the developing brain and body and understand the processe...
Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
Mar 20, 2016
Visual categorization refers to our ability to organize objects and visual scenes into discrete categories. It is an essential skill as it allows us to distinguish friend from foe or edible versus poisonous food. Understanding how the visual system c...