Seeing the interactions between other people is a critical part of our everyday visual
experience, but recognizing the social interactions of others is often considered outside the …

Languages tend to encode events from the perspective of agents, placing them first and in
simpler forms than patients. This agent bias is mirrored by cognition: Agents are more …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

3D scene graph prediction is important for intelligent agents to gather information and
perceive semantics of their environments. However, constructing an effective graph is …

Relations are basic building blocks of human cognition. Classic and recent work suggests
that many relations are early developing, and quickly perceived. Machine models that aspire …

Abstract “What is the structure of thought?” is as central a question as any in cognitive
science. A classic answer to this question has appealed to a Language of Thought (LoT) …

Recent theoretical work has argued that in addition to the classical ventral (what) and dorsal
(where/how) visual streams, there is a third visual stream on the lateral surface of the brain …

Humans effortlessly recognize social interactions from visual input. Attempts to model this
ability have typically relied on generative inverse planning models, which make predictions …

The distinction between perception and cognition figures centrally in many philosophical
debates, including debates about the justificatory role of perceptual experience, the …

Social learning is complex, but people often seem to navigate social environments with
ease. This ability creates a puzzle for traditional accounts of reinforcement learning (RL) that …