Edward Gibson,Richard Futrell,Steven P Piantadosi et al.
Edward Gibson et al.
Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language. Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of efficiency in usage: what otherwise puzzling features of language fin...
Matthew Botvinick,Sam Ritter,Jane X Wang et al.
Matthew Botvinick et al.
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have driven impressive advances in artificial intelligence in recent years, exceeding human performance in domains ranging from Atari to Go to no-limit poker. This progress has drawn the attention of...
Ian A Apperly
Ian A Apperly
A new study by Ward and colleagues (Curr. Biol. 2019;29:874-880) finds that participants use mental rotation to calculate an avatar's perspective on a scene without any prompt to do so. This often enables them to make faster judgments about...
David Soto,Usman Ayub Sheikh,Clive R Rosenthal
David Soto
Understanding the distinction between conscious and unconscious cognition remains a priority in psychology and neuroscience. A comprehensive neurocognitive account of conscious awareness will not be possible without a sound framework to iso...
Yochanan E Bigman,Adam Waytz,Ron Alterovitz et al.
Yochanan E Bigman et al.
As robots become more autonomous, people will see them as more responsible for wrongdoing. Moral psychology suggests that judgments of robot responsibility will hinge on perceived situational awareness, intentionality, and free will, plus h...
Julian Kiverstein,Erik Rietveld,Heleen A Slagter et al.
Julian Kiverstein et al.
A striking change OCD patients repeatedly describe following treatment with deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral anterior limb of internal capsule (vALIC) is an immediate increase in self-confidence. We show how the DBS-induced chang...
Jan M Engelmann,Michael Tomasello
Jan M Engelmann
One influential view holds that children's sense of fairness emerges at age 8 and is rooted in the development of an aversion to unequal resource distributions. Here, we suggest two amendments to this view. First, we argue and present evide...
Michael T Treadway,Jessica A Cooper,Andrew H Miller
Michael T Treadway
Inflammatory cytokines have been shown to have a direct effect on mesolimbic dopamine (DA) that is associated with a reduced willingness to expend effort for reward. To date, however, the broader implications of this communication between i...
Uri Hasson,Howard C Nusbaum
Uri Hasson
Cognitive neuroscience can be substantially advanced if structured mechanisms are created to increase its social impact and to develop synergies with some currently more distant disciplines that are developing relevant knowledge. We present...