Natural language is often seen as the single factor that explains the cognitive singularity of
the human species. Instead, we propose that humans possess multiple internal languages …

Deep learning bears promise for drug discovery, including advanced image analysis,
prediction of molecular structure and function, and automated generation of innovative …

The rise and success of large language models undermines virtually every strong claim for
the innateness of language that has been proposed by generative linguistics. Modern …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

In this article, we integrate two constructionist approaches—the theory of constructed
emotion and rational constructivism—to introduce several novel hypotheses for …

Conceptual abstraction and analogy‐making are key abilities underlying humans' abilities to
learn, reason, and robustly adapt their knowledge to new domains. Despite a long history of …

We propose that human social cognition is structured around a basic understanding of
ourselves and others as intuitive utility maximizers: from a young age, humans implicitly …

INTRODUCTION Compositionality, generalization, and learning from a few examples are
among the hallmarks of human intelligence. CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public …

Abstract Machines have achieved a broad and growing set of linguistic competencies,
thanks to recent progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Psychologists have …

Replay in the brain has been viewed as rehearsal or, more recently, as sampling from a
transition model. Here, we propose a new hypothesis: that replay is able to implement a form …