Context is widely regarded as a major determinant of learning and memory across
numerous domains, including classical and instrumental conditioning, episodic memory …

Batteries are vital energy storage carriers in industry and in our daily life. There is continued
interest in the developments of batteries with excellent service performance and safety …

The power of human language and thought arises from systematic compositionality—the
algebraic ability to understand and produce novel combinations from known components …

Much discussion about large language models and language-and-vision models has
focused on whether these models are intelligent agents. We present an alternative …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

People learning new concepts can often generalize successfully from just a single example,
yet machine learning algorithms typically require tens or hundreds of examples to perform …

As we live our lives, we repeatedly make decisions that shape our future circumstances and
affect the sort of person we will be. When choosing whether to start a family, or deciding on a …

Developmental psychologists coined the term" theory of mind" to describe how we
understand our shifting mental states in daily life. Over the past twenty years researchers …

We propose a new version of the “theory theory” grounded in the computational framework
of probabilistic causal models and Bayesian learning. Probabilistic models allow a …

People can learn visual concepts from just one example, but it remains a mystery how this is
accomplished. Many authors have proposed that transferred knowledge from more familiar …