Author summary Recent neural networks have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of visual tasks, often rivaling or surpassing human performance. Yet, it remains unclear whether these system...

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Kanzi, a bonobo studied for his language skills, understood make-believe objects

The visual recognition abilities of preschool children rival those of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models.

A key function of the brain is to categorize sensory cues as repulsive or attractive and respond accordingly. While we have some understanding of how sensory information is processed in the sensory pe...

The human capacity for rational decisions hinges on modal judgment: the discernment of what could, has to, or cannot happen. This ability was proposed to be a late outcome of human cognitive develop.....

The downfall of a long-standing theory in psychology raises a question: How much does the environment we’re raised in change how we literally see the world?

Humans are adept at navigating the social world in part because we flexibly map the locations and identities of agents around us. While field studies suggest primates can track individual conspecifics...

There is increasing evidence that non-human animals experience ‘free-floating’ mood states, but such evidence is lacking in reptiles, hindering the debate as to their affective capacity and with subse...

Computational theories of reinforcement learning suggest that two families of algorithm—model-based and model-free—tightly map onto the classic dis...

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds of millions of years ago

As a group, inattentionally blind participants can successfully report the location, color, and shape of stimuli they deny noticing, and exhibit a systematic bias to report not noticing.

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The problem of pain measurement is not technological, but philosophical. Biomarkers won’t solve it.

Remains recovered from beneath a Milan hospital shed light on health, diet, and drug habits during the 1600s

People routinely choose between multi-attribute options, such as which movie to watch. Here, the authors show people often have accurate insight into their choices, challenging the notion that people ...

An article published recently in Synthese caught the eye of a few Daily Nous readers. Remember the game, "which one of these is not like the others?" Give it try on this selection of the latest articl...

Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision

Concepts of exact number are often thought to originate from counting and the successor function, or from a refinement of the approximate number system (ANS). We argue here for a third origin: a share...

Julia has two sisters and one brother. How many sisters does her brother Martin have?Solving this tiny puzzle requires a bit of thinking. You might mentally picture the family of three girls and one b...

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“We need to prepare for a wide range of financial circumstances,” Harvard president Alan Garber and other university leaders said.

It has been an honor to edit this special issue of Learning & Behavior to recognize the exceptional contributions of Prof. Nicky S. Clayton FRS to the fields of comparative cognition and developmental...

A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

I defend a broadly representationalist interpretation of Bayesian cognitive science, focusing especially on perception, motor control, and navigation. The basic idea is that Bayesian models posit repr...

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