How do learners make sense of what they are learning? In this article, I present a new
framework of sense-making based on research investigating the benefits and boundaries of …

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 …

Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative
capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new …

The recent advent of large language models has reinvigorated debate over whether human
cognitive capacities might emerge in such generic models given sufficient training data. Of …

Mental time travel (MTT) is defined as projecting the self into the past and the future. Despite
growing evidence of the similarities of remembering past and imagining future events …

Learning from examples is a very effective means of initial cognitive skill acquisition. There
is an enormous body of research on the specifics of this learning method. This article …

This article provides a synthesis and overview of a theory of cognitive development, rational
constructivism. The basic tenets of this view are as follows:(a) Initial state: Human infants …

Much recent research has focused on the relation between spatial skills and mathematical
skills, which has resulted in widely reported links between these two skill sets. However, the …

We review psychological research bearing on major theories of metaphor comprehension. A
broad survey of behavioral studies is coupled with findings from recent meta-analyses of …

Recent progress in deep learning is essentially based on a “big data for small tasks”
paradigm, under which massive amounts of data are used to train a classifier for a single …