Psychology
Psychology and the mind: behavior, cognition, emotions, mental health, and how people think.
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Structuring Knowledge with Cognitive Maps and Cognitive Graphs cell.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. Humans and animals use mental representations of the spatial structure of the world to navigate. The classical view is that these representations take the form of Euclidean cognitive maps, but alternative theories…
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Understanding Human Intelligence through Human Limitations cell.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. Recent progress in artificial intelligence provides the opportunity to ask the question of what is unique about human intelligence, but with a new comparison class. The author argues that we can understand human…
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The Child as Hacker cell.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020. [All Versions]. The scope of human learning and development poses a radical challenge for cognitive science. The authors propose that developmental theories can address this challenge by adopting perspectives from computer science. Many of…
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The naïve utility calculus: Computational principles underlying commonsense psychology cell.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2016. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This review article proposes that human social cognition is structured around a basic understanding of ourselves and others as intuitive utility maximizers: from a young age, humans implicitly assume that agents…
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Task switching cell.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2003. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. The original paper on ``switch cost'', where subjects' responses are substantially slower and, usually, more error-prone immediately after a task switch.
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Why concepts are (probably) vectors cell.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024. [All Versions]. For decades, cognitive scientists have debated what kind of representation might characterize human concepts. Whatever the format of the representation, it must allow for the computation of varied properties, including…
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From task structures to world models: what do LLMs know? cell.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. In what sense does a large language model (LLM) have knowledge? The authors answer by granting LLMs ‘instrumental knowledge’: knowledge gained by using next-word generation as an instrument. The authors then ask…
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Theory-based Bayesian models of inductive learning and reasoning cell.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2006. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. Inductive inference allows humans to make powerful generalizations from sparse data when learning about word meanings, unobserved properties, causal relationships, and many other aspects of the world. Traditional…
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Probabilistic models of cognition: Conceptual foundations cell.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2006. [All Versions]. Remarkable progress in the mathematics and computer science of probability has led to a revolution in the scope of probabilistic models. In particular, ‘sophisticated’ probabilistic methods apply to structured relational…
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Behavior-grounded representation of tool affordances cc.gatech.edu
ICRA'05, 2005. [All Versions].
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Generalization, similarity, and Bayesian inference cambridge.org
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. Shepard has argued that a universal law should govern generalization across different domains of perception and cognition, as well as across organisms from different species or even different planets. Starting…
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Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People cambridge.org
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. Recent progress in artificial intelligence has renewed interest in building systems that learn and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained end-to-end in tasks such as…
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Why Imaginary Worlds? The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds cambridge.org
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2021. [All Versions]. Imaginary worlds are extremely successful. The most popular fictions produced in the last few decades contain such a fictional world. They can be found in all fictional media, from novels (e.g., Lord of The Rings and Harry…
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Rationalization is rational cambridge.org
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. Rationalization occurs when a person has performed an action and then concocts the beliefs and desires that would have made it rational. Then, people often adjust their own beliefs and desires to match the…
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Iconicity: From sign to system in human communication and language benjamins.com
Pragmatics & Cognition, 2014. [All Versions]. This paper explores the role of iconicity in spoken language and other human communication systems.
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Levels of Analysis for Machine Learning baicsworkshop.github.io
ICLR'20 Bridging AI and Cognitive Science Workshop, 2020. [All Versions]. A Marr's paradigm account on machine learning.
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The SocialAI School: Insights from Developmental Psychology Towards Artificial Socio-Cultural Agents arxiv.org
ICML'23 Workshop on Theory-of-Mind, 2023. [All Versions]. [Project].
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Experimental Games and Social Decision Making annualreviews.org
Annual Review of Psychology, 2021. [All Versions]. Experimental games model situations in which the future outcomes of individuals and groups depend on their own choices and on those of other (groups of) individuals. Games are a powerful tool to identify the neural and…
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Experiments with More Than One Random Factor: Designs, Analytic Models, and Statistical Power annualreviews.org
Annual Review of Psychology, 2017. [All Versions]. A comprehensive review of the quantitative analysis techniques for behavioral studies.
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Object Perception as Bayesian Inference annualreviews.org
Annual Review of Psychology, 2004. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. We perceive the shapes and material properties of objects quickly and reliably despite the complexity and objective ambiguities of natural images. Typical images are highly complex because they consist of many…
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Is human cognition adaptive? act-r.psy.cmu.edu
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1991. [All Versions]. The original paper introducing the adaptation perspective of human intelligence, the theoretical basis of the ACT cognitive architecture.
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The Adaptive Nature of Human Categorization Behavior act-r.psy.cmu.edu
Psychological Review, 1991. [All Versions]. The original paper that relates cognitive resource limitation with Bayesian rational analysis, in the case of categorization behavior.
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Theory of Minds: Understanding Behavior in Groups through Inverse Planning aaai.org
AAAI'19, 2019. [All Versions]. Towards the goal of building machine-learning algorithms with human-like social intelligence, this paper develops a generative model of multiagent action understanding based on a novel representation for these latent relationships called…
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A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor 1lib.net
MIT Press, 1985. [All Versions]. A cognitive account on Metaphor.
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An Empirical Analysis of Algorithmic Pricing on Amazon Marketplace mislove.org
(WWW) (Code) Develops a methodology for detecting algorithmic pricing, and use it empirically to analyze their prevalence and behavior on Amazon Marketplace.
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Scaling up search engine audits: Practical insights for algorithm auditing journals.sagepub.com
(Journal of Information Science) (Code) Audits multiple search engines using simulated browsing behavior with virtual agents.
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Hardware and software platform inference arxiv.org
(arXiv) A method for identifying the underlying GPU architecture and software stack of a black-box machine learning model solely based on its input-output behavior.
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xGEMs: Generating Examplars to Explain Black-Box Models arxiv.org
(arXiv) Searches bias in the black box model by training an unsupervised implicit generative model. Thensummarizes the black-box model behavior quantitatively by perturbing data samples along the data manifold.
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Boids en.wikipedia.org
Emergent flocking behavior.
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Anthropic Prompt Engineering docs.anthropic.com
Techniques for defining success criteria, testing prompts, and improving model behaviour.
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Dynamical Networks in Psychology: More Than A Pretty Picture? researchgate.net
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Tutorial Paper on New Methods for Estimating Psychological Networks psych-networks.com
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Networks in Social Psychology, Beginning with Kurt Lewin link.springer.com
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Sky skydb.io
database used for flexible, high performance analysis of behavioral data.
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LatAm Synth apify.com
Synthetic financial savings behavior generator for Latin America: users, savings goals, and transactions calibrated on 506K real records (2015–2024). Reproducible by seed, 100% synthetic.
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Sybill sybill.ai
Sybill generates summaries of sales calls, including next steps, pain points and areas of interest, by combining transcript and emotion-based insights.
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Devin devin.ai
An autonomous AI software engineer by Cognition Labs.
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TrustInSoft Analyzer trust-in-soft.com
copyright: — Exhaustive detection of coding errors and their associated security vulnerabilities. This encompasses a sound undefined behavior detection (buffer overflows, out-of-bounds array accesses, null-pointer dereferences, use-after-free, divide-by-zeros, uninitialized…
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Inkog inkog.io
AI agent security scanner. Detects behavioral vulnerabilities (prompt injection, infinite loops, token bombing, SQL injection via LLM) across 11 framework adapters including LangChain, CrewAI, and pydantic-ai. Audits MCP servers. Maps findings to EU AI Act, OWASP LLM Top 10…
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Blog trec.nist.gov
Explore information seeking behavior in the blogosphere.
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AST Metrics ast-metrics.dev
Multi-language maintainability analyzer. Computes cyclomatic and cognitive complexity, Halstead volume, afferent/efferent coupling and maintainability index, detects communities in the dependency graph, and generates an explorable HTML report plus JSON, Markdown, SARIF and…
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ansible-lint ansible.readthedocs.io
Checks playbooks for practices and behaviour that could potentially be improved.
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Astrée absint.com
copyright: — Astrée automatically proves the absence of runtime errors and invalid concurrent behavior in C/C++ applications. It is sound for floating-point computations, very fast, and exceptionally precise. The analyzer also checks for MISRA/CERT/CWE/Adaptive Autosar coding…
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Emotion Recognition API Demo - Microsoft projectoxford.ai
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CAVIAR video sequences of mall and public space behavior homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk
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Cognitive Graph for Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension at Scale arxiv.org
, Ming Ding, et al., ACL 2019, Jun 2019.
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Cognitive Class AI by IBM cognitiveclass.ai
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Serverless computing requires a shift in mindset blogs.wsj.com
Why IT leaders must communicate business value when talking about serverless solutions.
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Sysdig Secure sysdig.com
:yen: Sysdig Secure addresses run-time security through behavioral monitoring and defense, and provides deep forensics based on open source Sysdig for incident response.
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