A central challenge for cognitive science is to explain how abstract concepts are acquired
from limited experience. This has often been framed in terms of a dichotomy between …

A schema refers to a structured body of prior knowledge that captures common patterns
across related experiences. Schemas have been studied separately in the realms of …

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 …

Cognitive maps are mental representations of spatial and conceptual relationships in an
environment, and are critical for flexible behavior. To form these abstract maps, the …

In human and non-human animals, conceptual knowledge is partially organized according
to low-dimensional geometries that rely on brain structures and computations involved in …

Behavioral flexibility depends on our capacity to build and leverage abstract knowledge
about tasks. Recently, two separate lines of research have implicated distinct brain networks …

The hippocampal-entorhinal region supports memory for episodic details, such as temporal
relations of sequential events, and mnemonic constructions combining experiences for …

Humans possess an exceptional aptitude to efficiently make decisions from high-
dimensional sensory observations. However, it is unknown how the brain compactly …

According to the language-of-thought hypothesis, regular sequences are compressed in
human memory using recursive loops akin to a mental program that predicts future items …

A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to adapt to new situations by applying learned
rules to new content (systematicity) and thereby enabling an open-ended number of …