Planning with theory of mind

MK Ho, R Saxe, F Cushman - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Understanding Theory of Mind should begin with an analysis of the problems it solves. The
traditional answer is that Theory of Mind is used for predicting others' thoughts and actions …

Building machines that learn and think with people

KM Collins, I Sucholutsky, U Bhatt, K Chandra… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
What do we want from machine intelligence? We envision machines that are not just tools
for thought but partners in thought: reasonable, insightful, knowledgeable, reliable and …

Cognitive architectures for language agents

TR Sumers, S Yao, K Narasimhan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent efforts have incorporated large language models (LLMs) with external resources (eg,
the Internet) or internal control flows (eg, prompt chaining) for tasks requiring grounding or …

Expertise increases planning depth in human gameplay

B van Opheusden, I Kuperwajs, G Galbiati, Z Bnaya… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to plan multiple steps into the future,. Despite
decades of research,–, it is still debated whether skilled decision-makers plan more steps …

People construct simplified mental representations to plan

MK Ho, D Abel, CG Correa, ML Littman, JD Cohen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
One of the most striking features of human cognition is the ability to plan. Two aspects of
human planning stand out—its efficiency and flexibility. Efficiency is especially impressive …

Naturalistic reinforcement learning

T Wise, K Emery, A Radulescu - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Humans possess a remarkable ability to make decisions within real-world environments that
are expansive, complex, and multidimensional. Human cognitive computational …

Computational social psychology

F Cushman - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Social psychologists attempt to explain how we interact by appealing to basic principles of
how we think. To make good on this ambition, they are increasingly relying on an …

Humans decompose tasks by trading off utility and computational cost

CG Correa, MK Ho, F Callaway, ND Daw… - PLoS computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Human behavior emerges from planning over elaborate decompositions of tasks into goals,
subgoals, and low-level actions. How are these decompositions created and used? Here …

Computational cross‐species views of the hippocampal formation

SL Zhu, KJ Lakshminarasimhan, DE Angelaki - Hippocampus, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of place cells and head direction cells in the hippocampal formation of freely
foraging rodents has led to an emphasis of its role in encoding allocentric spatial …

Leveraging artificial intelligence to improve people's planning strategies

F Callaway, YR Jain… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Human decision making is plagued by systematic errors that can have devastating
consequences. Previous research has found that such errors can be partly prevented by …