Ji et al. investigated the unit of working memory manipulation. Participants were asked to update either the color or location of memorized information. Task difficulty depended on the number of Boolean maps involved, rather than the number of objects, suggesting that Boolean maps, not objects, are the units of manipulation. Read Full Article (External Site) […]

Everyone agrees that feelings and actions are intertwined, but cannot agree how. According to dominant models, actions are directed by estimates of value and these values shape or are shaped by affect. I propose instead that affect is the only form of value that drives actions. Our mind constantly represents potential future states and how […]

In a recent opinion in TiCS [1], we asked: ‘What do large language models (LLMs) know?’. We answered by granting LLMs instrumental knowledge: that is, knowledge gained through using the instrument of next-word generation. We then explored how this type of instrumental knowledge could be related to the more ordinary kind of worldly knowledge exhibited […]