ViSpa (Vision Spaces): A computer-vision-based representation system for individual images and concept prototypes, with large-scale evaluation.

F Günther, M Marelli, S Tureski, MA Petilli - Psychological Review, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Quantitative, data-driven models for mental representations have long enjoyed popularity
and success in psychology (eg, distributional semantic models in the language domain), but …

Spatialization in working memory is related to literacy and reading direction: Culture “literarily” directs our thoughts

A Guida, AM Megreya, M Lavielle-Guida, Y Noël… - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
The ability to maintain arbitrary sequences of items in the mind contributes to major cognitive
faculties, such as language, reasoning, and episodic memory. Previous research suggests …

What happened to the interdisciplinary study of learning in humans and machines?

S Doroudi - Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT When the Learning Sciences emerged in 1991, there was an ethos of studying
learning in humans and machines in conjunction with one another. This ethos reflected …

[HTML][HTML] The body of knowledge: On the role of the living body in grounding embodied cognition

T Ziemke - Biosystems, 2016 - Elsevier
Embodied cognition is a hot topic in both cognitive science and AI, despite the fact that there
still is relatively little consensus regarding what exactly constitutes 'embodiment'. While most …

[HTML][HTML] An active inference model of hierarchical action understanding, learning and imitation

R Proietti, G Pezzulo, A Tessari - Physics of Life Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
We advance a novel active inference model of the cognitive processing that underlies the
acquisition of a hierarchical action repertoire and its use for observation, understanding and …

Brain-constrained neural modeling explains fast mapping of words to meaning

M Constant, F Pulvermüller, R Tomasello - Cerebral Cortex, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Although teaching animals a few meaningful signs is usually time-consuming, children
acquire words easily after only a few exposures, a phenomenon termed “fast-mapping.” …

Fatigue increases the perception of future effort during decision making

P Iodice, C Calluso, L Barca, M Bertollo, P Ripari… - Psychology of Sport and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives When making a decision, humans and other animals consider both the value of
the alternatives and their associated effort. Accordingly, several studies have shown that the …

Building human-like communicative intelligence: A grounded perspective

M Dubova - Cognitive Systems Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems excel at diverse tasks, from image
classification to strategy games, even outperforming humans in many of these domains …

A biological foundation for spatial–numerical associations: the brain's asymmetric frequency tuning

A Felisatti, J Laubrock, S Shaki… - Annals of the New York …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract “Left” and “right” coordinates control our spatial behavior and even influence
abstract thoughts. For number concepts, horizontal spatial–numerical associations (SNAs) …

[HTML][HTML] Embodied processing at six linguistic granularity levels: A consensus paper

A Körner, M Castillo, L Drijvers, MH Fischer… - Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Language processing is influenced by sensorimotor experiences. Here, we review
behavioral evidence for embodied and grounded influences in language processing across …