Arguably, the most difficult part of learning is deciding what to learn about. Should I
associate the positive outcome of safely completing a street-crossing with the situation 'the …

We review the psychology and neuroscience of reinforcement learning (RL), which has
experienced significant progress in the past two decades, enabled by the comprehensive …

Starting around 6 to 9 months of age, children begin acquiring their first words, linking
spoken words to their visual counterparts. How much of this knowledge is learnable from …

Psychology endeavors to develop theories of human capacities and behaviors on the basis
of a variety of methodologies and dependent measures. We argue that one of the most …

" Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be
so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since …

Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) is an online crowdsourcing service where anonymous
online workers complete web-based tasks for small sums of money. The service has …

Similarity and categorization are fundamental processes in human cognition that help
complex organisms make sense of the cacophony of information in their environment. These …

The discriminative lexicon is introduced as a mathematical and computational model of the
mental lexicon. This novel theory is inspired by word and paradigm morphology but …

Human perceptual decisions are often described as optimal. Critics of this view have argued
that claims of optimality are overly flexible and lack explanatory power. Meanwhile …

In recent years, ideas from the computational field of reinforcement learning have
revolutionized the study of learning in the brain, famously providing new, precise theories of …