no code implementations • 28 Feb 2024 • Declan Campbell, Jonathan D. Cohen
The human cognitive system exhibits remarkable flexibility and generalization capabilities, partly due to its ability to form low-dimensional, compositional representations of the environment.
no code implementations • 6 Feb 2024 • Sreejan Kumar, Raja Marjieh, Byron Zhang, Declan Campbell, Michael Y. Hu, Umang Bhatt, Brenden Lake, Thomas L. Griffiths
To investigate the effect language on the formation of abstractions, we implement a novel multimodal serial reproduction framework by asking people who receive a visual stimulus to reproduce it in a linguistic format, and vice versa.
no code implementations • 6 Feb 2024 • Declan Campbell, Sreejan Kumar, Tyler Giallanza, Thomas L. Griffiths, Jonathan D. Cohen
Humans possess a remarkable capacity to recognize and manipulate abstract structure, which is especially apparent in the domain of geometry.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2023 • Declan Campbell, Sreejan Kumar, Tyler Giallanza, Jonathan D. Cohen, Thomas L. Griffiths
Uniquely among primates, humans possess a remarkable capacity to recognize and manipulate abstract structure in the service of task goals across a broad range of behaviors.
no code implementations • 12 Sep 2023 • Taylor W. Webb, Steven M. Frankland, Awni Altabaa, Simon Segert, Kamesh Krishnamurthy, Declan Campbell, Jacob Russin, Tyler Giallanza, Zack Dulberg, Randall O'Reilly, John Lafferty, Jonathan D. Cohen
A central challenge for cognitive science is to explain how abstract concepts are acquired from limited experience.