Human cognition is not solitary, it is shaped by collective learning and memory. Unlike
swarms or herds, human social networks have diverse topologies, serving diverse modes of …

Implicit learning refers to learning without conscious awareness of the content acquired.
Theoretical frameworks of human cognition suggest that intuitions develop based on …

To study the human mind is to consider the nature of associations—how are they learned,
what are their constituent parts, and how can they be severed or adjusted? The …

Humans deftly parse statistics from sequences. Some theories posit that humans learn these
statistics by forming cognitive maps, or underlying representations of the latent space which …

Abstract Thinking is complex. Over the years, several types of methods and paradigms have
developed across the psychological, cognitive, and neural sciences to study such …

The representation of structural knowledge in the brain in form of a so-called cognitive map
has been 28 a topic of great interest. A common assumption is that a cognitive map provides …

We encounter the world as a continuous flow and effortlessly segment sequences of events
into episodes. This process of event segmentation engages working memory (WM) for …

Precisely how humans process relational patterns of information in knowledge, language,
music, and society is not well understood. Prior work in the field of statistical learning has …

The human mind is curious. It is strange, remarkable, and mystifying; it is eager, probing,
and questioning. Despite the pervasiveness of curiosity and its relevance for our well-being …

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 …