According to the language-of-thought hypothesis, regular sequences are compressed in
human memory using recursive loops akin to a mental program that predicts future items …

Language and music involve the productive combination of basic units into structures. It
remains unclear whether brain regions sensitive to linguistic and musical structure are co …

A comprehensive neural model of language must accommodate four components:
representations, operations, structures and encoding. Recent intracranial research has …

The evolutionary history of animal cognition appears to involve a few major transitions:
major changes that opened up new phylogenetic possibilities for cognition. Here, we review …

Noting that some theropod dinosaurs had large brains, large grasping hands, and likely
binocular vision, paleontologist Dale Russell suggested that a branch of these dinosaurs …

An open question regarding how people develop their models of the world is how new
candidates are generated for consideration out of infinitely many possibilities. We discuss …

The current state of the art in artificial intelligence is impressive, especially in terms of
mastery of language, but not so much in terms of mathematical reasoning. What could be …

The paper proposes a new frontier for conceptual modeling–universal conceptual modeling
(UCM)–defined as conceptual modeling that is general-purpose and accessible to anyone …

Humans leverage compositionality to efficiently learn new concepts, understanding how
familiar parts can combine together to form novel objects. In contrast, popular computer …

Compositionality has long been considered a key explanatory property underlying human
intelligence: arbitrary concepts can be composed into novel complex combinations …