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 …

The associative theory of creativity has long held that creative thinking involves connecting
remote concepts in semantic memory. Network science tools have recently been applied to …

Humans receive information from the world around them in sequences of discrete items—
from words in language or notes in music to abstract concepts in books and websites on the …

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 …

Humans communicate using systems of interconnected stimuli or concepts—from language
and music to literature and science—yet it remains unclear how, if at all, the structure of …

Networks are a useful mathematical tool for capturing the complexity of the world. In a
previous behavioral study, we showed that human adults were sensitive to the high-level …

Throughout life, we might seek a calling, companions, skills, entertainment, truth, self-
knowledge, beauty, and edification. The practice of curiosity can be viewed as an extended …

Humans are adept at uncovering abstract associations in the world around them, yet the
underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Intuitively, learning the higher-order …

Most humans have the good fortune to live their lives embedded in richly structured social
groups. Yet, it remains unclear how humans acquire knowledge about these social …

Successive auditory inputs are rarely independent, their relationships ranging from local
transitions between elements to hierarchical and nested representations. In many situations …