Cognitive Science

The latest breakthroughs, innovations, and cool happenings at the cutting edge of the world of cognitive science. Updated daily.

Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Recursive Pattern Processing in Human Adults

Imagine your brain as an architect, tirelessly constructing intricate buildings of thoughts and ideas. Just like a skilled architect, our minds possess the remarkable ability to generate recursive sequences – patterns nested within patterns, like a set of Russian dolls. But how exactly does this magical process occur? In a quest to uncover the secrets […]

Published on April 13, 2023

Learning to Learn Functions

Just like learning to ride a bike, humans have the remarkable ability to learn complex functional relationships between variables from only a small amount of data. But how exactly do we do it? Well, it turns out that we have an internal toolbox filled with prior expectations about the forms these relationships may take. In […]

Published on April 13, 2023

Human Variability and the Balancing Act of Recommender Systems

Navigating the vast ocean of information and products on the Internet requires algorithms to guide our choices. These algorithms face a challenge – should they explore uncertain options or exploit known high-rated items? This dilemma, known as the exploration-exploitation trade-off, is influenced by human variability. To better understand this trade-off, researchers have developed a unified […]

Published on April 13, 2023