Cognitive Science

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Helpless infants are learning a foundation model

Humans have a protracted postnatal helplessness period, typically attributed to human-specific maternal constraints causing an early birth when the brain is highly immature. By aligning neurodevelopmental events across species, however, it has been found that humans are not born with especially immature brains compared with animal species with a shorter helpless period. Consistent with this, […]

Published on June 5, 2024

Brain–body states embody complex temporal dynamics

We propose a computational framework for high-dimensional brain–body states as transient embodiments of nested internal and external dynamics governed by interoception. Unifying recent theoretical work, we suggest ways to reduce arbitrary state complexity to an observable number of features in order to accurately predict and intervene in pathological trajectories. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. […]

Published on May 30, 2024

Bridging the Chasm Between Cognitive Representations and Formal Structures of Linguistic Meanings

Abstract This paper aims to show that properties of cognitive/conceptual representations and formal-logical structures of linguistic meaning can be inter-translated, recast, transformed into one another, and so united together, even though cognitive/conceptual representations and formal-logical structures of linguistic meaning are apparently distinct in ontology and divergent in their form or character. While cognitive/conceptual representations are […]

Published on May 29, 2024