Weber's law is a rare quantitative regularity in psychology, yet its origins remain debated. Here we provide causal evidence that it arises from the more fundamental principle of efficient coding. Thi...

ICML 2026 invited keynote — slides and edited transcript, presented click-by-click as delivered. Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University.

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Donders Debate with Micha Heilbron and Pim Haselager: Artificial neural network models are adequate mechanistic models of the mind

We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...

Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the memorization

Author summary How does the brain make sense of the constant stream of visual information? A popular theory suggests the brain is not a passive receiver but an active predictor, constantly generating ...

Scenes are complex, yet structured collections of parts, including objects and surfaces, that exhibit spatial and semantic relations to one another. An effective visual system therefore needs unified ...

ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.

What makes some stimuli more memorable than others? While memory varies across individuals, research shows that some items are intrinsically more memorable, a property quantifiable as “memorability”. ...

Human memory is fleeting. As words are processed, the exact wordforms that make up incoming sentences are rapidly lost. Cognitive scientists have long believed that this limitation of memory may, para...

Eh, je weet wel wie... dinges! Heb jij ook soms zo’n moeite om op een naam te komen? Hersenonderzoeker Micha Heilbron legt uit hoe dat komt - en waarom een naam eigenlijk niet zo belangrijk is.

Theories of predictive processing propose that sensory systems constantly predict incoming signals, based on spatial and temporal context. However, evidence for prediction in sensory cortex largely co...

Theories of predictive processing propose that sensory systems constantly predict incoming signals, based on spatial and temporal context. However, evidence for prediction in sensory cortex largely co...

De respons van UNL op de WIB is willekeurig en ondemocratisch, betogen vier Amsterdamse onderzoekers.

De respons van UNL op de WIB is willekeurig en ondemocratisch, betogen vier Amsterdamse onderzoekers.

Users are outraged as Meta automatically made them follow Trump and Vance on Facebook and blocked #Democrat hashtags on Instagram.

Area Chairs nominated to serve for the 8-page conference proceedings track at CCN 2025 should meet the following requirements: be a senior researcher (professor, research fellow, postdoc); have author...

Classical models of memory in psychology and neuroscience rely on similarity-based retrieval of stored patterns, where similarity is a function of retrieval cues and the stored patterns. While parsimo...