Joshua B Tenenbaum
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Chu J, Tenenbaum J, Schulz L
Trends Cogn Sci
. 2024 Apr;
28(7):628-642.
PMID: 38616478
Humans often pursue idiosyncratic goals that appear remote from functional ends, including information gain. We suggest that this is valuable because goals (even prima facie foolish or unachievable ones) contain...
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Mahowald K, Ivanova A, Blank I, Kanwisher N, Tenenbaum J, Fedorenko E
Trends Cogn Sci
. 2024 Mar;
28(6):517-540.
PMID: 38508911
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. Here, we evaluate LLMs...
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Allen K, Smith K, Bird L, Tenenbaum J, Makin T, Cowie D
Psychon Bull Rev
. 2023 Dec;
31(3):1364-1375.
PMID: 38049575
'Embodied cognition' suggests that our bodily experiences broadly shape our cognitive capabilities. We study how embodied experience affects the abstract physical problem-solving styles people use in a virtual task where...
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Yildirim I, Siegel M, Soltani A, Ray Chaudhuri S, Tenenbaum J
Nat Hum Behav
. 2023 Nov;
8(2):320-335.
PMID: 37996497
Many surface cues support three-dimensional shape perception, but humans can sometimes still see shape when these features are missing-such as when an object is covered with a draped cloth. Here...
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Chandra K, Li T, Tenenbaum J, Ragan-Kelley J
Top Cogn Sci
. 2023 Nov;
16(1):54-70.
PMID: 37962526
Great storytelling takes us on a journey the way ordinary reality rarely does. But what exactly do we mean by this "journey?" Recently, literary theorist Karin Kukkonen proposed that storytelling...
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Hawkins R, Berdahl A, Pentland A, Tenenbaum J, Goodman N, Krafft P
Nat Hum Behav
. 2023 Aug;
7(10):1767-1776.
PMID: 37591983
Groups coordinate more effectively when individuals are able to learn from others' successes. But acquiring such knowledge is not always easy, especially in real-world environments where success is hidden from...
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Brandle F, Stocks L, Tenenbaum J, Gershman S, Schulz E
Nat Hum Behav
. 2023 Jul;
7(9):1481-1489.
PMID: 37488401
Studies of human exploration frequently cast people as serendipitously stumbling upon good options. Yet these studies may not capture the richness of exploration strategies that people exhibit in more complex...
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Houlihan S, Kleiman-Weiner M, Hewitt L, Tenenbaum J, Saxe R
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
. 2023 Jun;
381(2251):20220047.
PMID: 37271174
From sparse descriptions of events, observers can make systematic and nuanced predictions of what emotions the people involved will experience. We propose a formal model of emotion prediction in the...
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DreamCoder: growing generalizable, interpretable knowledge with wake-sleep Bayesian program learning
Ellis K, Wong L, Nye M, Sable-Meyer M, Cary L, Anaya Pozo L, et al.
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
. 2023 Jun;
381(2251):20220050.
PMID: 37271169
Expert problem-solving is driven by powerful languages for thinking about problems and their solutions. Acquiring expertise means learning these languages-systems of concepts, alongside the skills to use them. We present...
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Zhou L, Smith K, Tenenbaum J, Gerstenberg T
J Exp Psychol Gen
. 2023 Apr;
152(8):2237-2269.
PMID: 37093666
From building towers to picking an orange from a stack of fruit, assessing support is critical for successfully interacting with the physical world. But how do people determine whether one...