ALT: Black Cat Interacts with a Halloween Pumpkin

Across many human languages, consonants carry more lexical information than vowels. During speech segmentation, humans, unlike nonhuman primates, rely more on consonant than vowel patterns, despite vo...

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Consciousness needs a subject - Volume 49

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Alakaʻi 1777 – using immersive sound to communicate the nonhuman cultural extinction crisis - Volume 4

ecological validity in comparative cognitive science

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AI can uncover problem-solving strategies beyond human discovery. Here, the authors show that AI-discovered strategies propagate and persist in human populations, producing cultural shifts when non-tr...

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the l...

Examining the Robustness and Generalizability of the Shape Bias: A Meta-Analysis

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.