Along with the increased interest in and volume of social cognition research, there has been
higher awareness of a lack of agreement on the concepts and taxonomy used to study social …

There is a large and growing body of evidence on the health benefits of engagement in
leisure activities (voluntary, enjoyable non-work activities, such as hobbies, arts …

Being able to map the activities of others into one's own point of view is one fundamental
human skill even from a very early age. Taking a step toward understanding this human …

Cognitive load theory was introduced in the 1980s as an instructional design theory based
on several uncontroversial aspects of human cognitive architecture. Our knowledge of many …

Derived from rapid advances in computer vision and machine learning, video analysis tasks
have been moving from inferring the present state to predicting the future state. Vision-based …

“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences...
Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the …

This paper provides a concise description of the free energy principle, starting from a
formulation of random dynamical systems in terms of a Langevin equation and ending with a …

This paper describes a path integral formulation of the free energy principle. The ensuing
account expresses the paths or trajectories that a particle takes as it evolves over time. The …

Large language models are enabling rapid progress in robotic verbal communication, but
nonverbal communication is not kee** pace. Physical humanoid robots struggle to …

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in
the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition …