Dissociating language and thought in large language models

K Mahowald, AA Ivanova, IA Blank, N Kanwisher… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Large language models (LLMs) have come closest among all models to date to mastering
human language, yet opinions about their linguistic and cognitive capabilities remain split …

The neuroconnectionist research programme

A Doerig, RP Sommers, K Seeliger… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) inspired by biology are beginning to be widely used to
model behavioural and neural data, an approach we call 'neuroconnectionism'. ANNs have …

[HTML][HTML] Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models

A Goldstein, Z Zada, E Buchnik, M Schain, A Price… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Departing from traditional linguistic models, advances in deep learning have resulted in a
new type of predictive (autoregressive) deep language models (DLMs). Using a self …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech

C Caucheteux, A Gramfort, JR King - Nature human behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
Considerable progress has recently been made in natural language processing: deep
learning algorithms are increasingly able to generate, summarize, translate and classify …

[HTML][HTML] Brains and algorithms partially converge in natural language processing

C Caucheteux, JR King - Communications biology, 2022 - nature.com
Deep learning algorithms trained to predict masked words from large amount of text have
recently been shown to generate activations similar to those of the human brain. However …

Large-scale evidence for logarithmic effects of word predictability on reading time

C Shain, C Meister, T Pimentel… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
During real-time language comprehension, our minds rapidly decode complex meanings
from sequences of words. The difficulty of doing so is known to be related to words' …

Driving and suppressing the human language network using large language models

G Tuckute, A Sathe, S Srikant, M Taliaferro… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Transformer models such as GPT generate human-like language and are predictive of
human brain responses to language. Here, using functional-MRI-measured brain responses …

Text and patterns: For effective chain of thought, it takes two to tango

A Madaan, A Yazdanbakhsh - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.07686, 2022 - arxiv.org
The past decade has witnessed dramatic gains in natural language processing and an
unprecedented scaling of large language models. These developments have been …

The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain

E Fedorenko, AA Ivanova, TI Regev - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Language behaviour is complex, but neuroscientific evidence disentangles it into
distinct components supported by dedicated brain areas or networks. In this Review, we …

Do large language models know what humans know?

S Trott, C Jones, T Chang, J Michaelov… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Humans can attribute beliefs to others. However, it is unknown to what extent this ability
results from an innate biological endowment or from experience accrued through child …