A fascinating hypothesis is that human and animal intelligence could be explained by a few
principles (rather than an encyclopaedic list of heuristics). If that hypothesis was correct, we …

Evolution is a blind fitting process by which organisms become adapted to their
environment. Does the brain use similar brute-force fitting processes to learn how to …

Abstract 'Intuitive physics' enables our pragmatic engagement with the physical world and
forms a key component of 'common sense'aspects of thought. Current artificial intelligence …

New advances in neurobiology are revealing that brain development and the learning it
enables are directly dependent on social-emotional experience. Growing bodies of research …

Abstract Reasoning about objects, relations, and physics is central to human intelligence,
and a key goal of artificial intelligence. Here we introduce the interaction network, a model …

Expert problem-solving is driven by powerful languages for thinking about problems and
their solutions. Acquiring expertise means learning these languages—systems of concepts …

Social learning is often portrayed as a passive process of copying and trusting others. This
view, however, does not fully capture what makes human social learning so powerful: social …

Humans acquire much of their knowledge from the testimony of other people. An
understanding of the way that information can be conveyed via gesture and vocalization is …

The world contains not only objects and features (red apples, glass bowls, wooden tables),
but also relations holding between them (apples contained in bowls, bowls supported by …

Highlights•Multiple scales of learning (and hence meta-learning) are ubiquitous in
nature.•Many existing lines of work in neuroscience and cognitive science touch upon …