Dissociating language and thought in large language models

K Mahowald, AA Ivanova, IA Blank, N Kanwisher… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Large language models (LLMs) have come closest among all models to date to mastering
human language, yet opinions about their linguistic and cognitive capabilities remain split …

Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity

S Dehaene, F Al Roumi, Y Lakretz, S Planton… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2022 - cell.com
Natural language is often seen as the single factor that explains the cognitive singularity of
the human species. Instead, we propose that humans possess multiple internal languages …

Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech

C Caucheteux, A Gramfort, JR King - Nature human behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
Considerable progress has recently been made in natural language processing: deep
learning algorithms are increasingly able to generate, summarize, translate and classify …

The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing

M Schrimpf, IA Blank, G Tuckute… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative
modeling approach in which computation, brain function, and behavior are linked across …

Neural entrainment and attentional selection in the listening brain

J Obleser, C Kayser - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
The streams of sounds we typically attend to abound in acoustic regularities. Neural
entrainment is seen as an important mechanism that the listening brain exploits to attune to …

Large-scale gradients in human cortical organization

JM Huntenburg, PL Bazin, DS Margulies - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Recent advances in mapping cortical areas in the human brain provide a basis for
investigating the significance of their spatial arrangement. Here we describe a dominant …

Magnetoencephalography for brain electrophysiology and imaging

S Baillet - Nature neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
We review the aspects that uniquely characterize magnetoencephalography (MEG) among
the techniques available to explore and resolve brain function and dysfunction. While …

Psychology, science, and knowledge construction: Broadening perspectives from the replication crisis

PE Shrout, JL Rodgers - Annual review of psychology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Psychology advances knowledge by testing statistical hypotheses using empirical
observations and data. The expectation is that most statistically significant findings can be …

Anticipated moments: temporal structure in attention

AC Nobre, F Van Ede - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
We have come to recognize the brain as a predictive organ, anticipating attributes of the
incoming sensory stimulation to guide perception and action in the service of adaptive …

Statistical learning research: A critical review and possible new directions.

R Frost, BC Armstrong, MH Christiansen - Psychological Bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Statistical learning (SL) is involved in a wide range of basic and higher-order cognitive
functions and is taken to be an important building block of virtually all current theories of …