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Hippocampal neurons construct a map of an abstract value space sciencedirect.com
Cell, 2021. [All Versions].
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Limits on Simulation Approaches in Intuitive Physics sciencedirect.com
Cognitive Psychology, 2021. [All Versions]. Ernest Davis's perspective against intuitive physics, that physcial reasoning is logical reasoning instead of intuition.
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Locating what comes to mind in empirically derived representational spaces sciencedirect.com
Cognition, 2023. [All Versions]. An evidence-based study concluding that people call category members to mind according to their location in representational space, specifically based on the predicted usefulness of considering category members with particular features.
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The nature of external representations in problem solving sciencedirect.com
Cognitive Science, 1997. [All Versions].
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Heuristics for Scientific Experimentation: A Developmental Study sciencedirect.com
Cognitive Psychology, 1993. [All Versions]. A piece of evidence on children have basic scientific thinking skills.
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Learning physical parameters from dynamic scenes sciencedirect.com
Cognitive Psychology, 2017. [All Versions].
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In situ bidirectional human-robot value alignment science.org
Science Robotics, 2022. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This paper proposes an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) system in which a group of robots predicts users’ values by taking in situ feedback into consideration while communicating their decision processes to users…
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Humanoid robotics—History, current state of the art, and challenges science.org
Science Robotics, 2017. [All Versions]. Humanoids represent one of the ultimate goals of robotics: to synthesize advances from many disciplines.
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Evolution-inspired engineering of nonribosomal peptide synthetases science.org
Science, 2024. [All Versions]. Many clinically used drugs are derived from natural microbial products that are assembled in a stepwise fashion by the condensation of amino acids or acyl groups. Using insights from evolutionary analysis, two independent groups now show that the…
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A principal odor map unifies diverse tasks in olfactory perception science.org
Science, 2023. [All Versions]. [Code]. [Data (Reproduced)]. [Preprint]. [GoodScents Database]. [Leffingwell Database]. Mapping molecular structure to odor perception is a key challenge in olfaction. This work used graph neural networks to generate a principal odor map (POM)…
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Digitization and validation of a chemical synthesis literature database in the ChemPU science.org
Science, 2022. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This paper presents an automatically executable chemical reaction database of 100 molecules representative of the range of reactions found in contemporary organic synthesis. The chemical reaction codes or χDLs for the reactions have…
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Learning the language of viral evolution and escape science.org
Science, 2021. [All Versions]. The ability for viruses to mutate and evade the human immune system and cause infection, called viral escape, remains an obstacle to antiviral and vaccine development. Understanding the complex rules that govern escape could inform therapeutic…
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A prometastatic splicing program regulated by SNRPA1 interactions with structured RNA elements science.org
Science, 2021. [All Versions]. Pathological changes in alternative splicing patterns are considered a hallmark of cancer, yet the underlying regulatory programs that control this process remain largely unknown. A major obstacle to better understanding these programs is that the…
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A universal system for digitization and automatic execution of the chemical synthesis literature science.org
Science, 2020. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. [XDL Documentation]. [XDL Schema Database]. This paper reports a software platform that uses natural language processing to translate the organic chemistry literature directly into editable code, which in turn can be compiled to drive…
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Organic synthesis in a modular robotic system driven by a chemical programming language science.org
Science, 2019. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. [Perspective: Democratizing synthesis by automation]. This paper develops an autonomous compiler and robotic laboratory platform to synthesize organic compounds on the basis of standardized methods descriptions. The platform comprises…
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Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking science.org
Science, 2018. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. The hippocampal formation has long been suggested to underlie both memory formation and spatial navigation. This work discusses how neural mechanisms identified in spatial navigation research operate across information domains to…
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Reconfigurable system for automated optimization of diverse chemical reactions science.org
Science, 2018. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This paper describes a plug-and-play, continuous-flow chemical synthesis system that mitigates this challenge with an integrated combination of hardware, software, and analytics. The system software controls the user-selected reagents…
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A generative vision model that trains with high data efficiency and breaks text-based CAPTCHAs science.org
Science, 2017. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. Learning from a few examples and generalizing to markedly different situations are capabilities of human visual intelligence that are yet to be matched by leading machine learning models. By drawing inspiration from systems…
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Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code science.org
Science, 2016. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. It has been hypothesized that the brain organizes concepts into a mental map, allowing conceptual relationships to be navigated in a manner similar to that of space. Grid cells use a hexagonally symmetric code to organize spatial…
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Human-level concept learning through probabilistic program induction science.org
Science, 2015. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. [Supplementary Material]. People learning new concepts can often generalize successfully from just a single example, yet machine learning algorithms typically require tens or hundreds of examples to perform with similar accuracy…
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Reproducibility science.org
Science, 2014. [All Versions].
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How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction science.org
Science, 2011. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This review describes recent approaches to reverse-engineering human learning and cognitive development and, in parallel, engineering more humanlike machine learning systems. Computational models that perform probabilistic inference…
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Human-level few-shot concept induction through minimax entropy learning science.org
Science Advances, 2024. [All Versions]. This paper introduces a computational model designed to emulate human inductive reasoning on abstract reasoning tasks, such as those in IQ tests, using a minimax entropy approach. This method combines identifying the most effective…
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Science Advances, 2019. [All Versions]. In the process of finding high-performance materials for organic photovoltaics (OPVs), it is meaningful if one can establish the relationship between chemical structures and photovoltaic properties even before synthesizing them. This work…
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AI Feynman: A physics-inspired method for symbolic regression science.org
Science Advances, 2019. [All Versions]. A core challenge for both physics and artificial intelligence (AI) is symbolic regression: finding a symbolic expression that matches data from an unknown function. Although this problem is likely to be NP-hard in principle, functions of…
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Beyond imitation: Zero-shot task transfer on robots by learning concepts as cognitive programs science.org
Science Robotics, 2019. [All Versions]. Humans can infer concepts from image pairs and apply those in the physical world in a completely different setting, enabling tasks like IKEA assembly from diagrams. If robots could represent and infer high-level concepts, then it would…
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From language development to language evolution: A unified view of human lexical creativity science.org
Science, 2023. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This work supports a unified foundation for human lexical creativity underlying both the fleeting products of individual ontogeny and the evolutionary products of phylogeny across languages.
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Science, 1974. [All Versions]. Daniel Kahneman's classic idea of prospective theory.
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Predicting Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Games science.org
Science, 2012. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. One of the most astonishing features of human language is its capacity to convey information efficiently in context. Many theories provide informal accounts of communicative inference, yet there have been few successes in making…
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A tale of two explanations: Enhancing human trust by explaining robot behavior science.org
Science Robotics, 2019. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. The ability to provide comprehensive explanations of chosen actions is a hallmark of intelligence. Lack of this ability impedes the general acceptance of AI and robot systems in critical tasks. This paper examines what forms…
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Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting science.org
Science, 2023. [All Versions].
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Robotic hand augmentation drives changes in neural body representation robotics.sciencemag.org
Science Robotics, 2021. [All Versions].
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Automation isn't automatic pubs.rsc.org
Chemical Science, 2021. [All Versions]. This perspective provides an overview of the current state of automation of synthetic chemistry at the benchtop scale with a particular emphasis on core considerations and the ensuing challenges of deploying a system. The authors aim to…
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Chemputation and the Standardization of Chemical Informatics pubs.acs.org
Journal of the American Chemical Society (Au), 2021. [All Versions]. This paper describes a standard hardware (the chemical processing programming architecture --- the ChemPU) to encompass all chemical synthesis, an approach which unifies all chemistry automation strategies…
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A Logic Programming Language for Computational Nucleic Acid Devices pubs.acs.org
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2018. [All Versions]. This paper presents a logic programming language that allows a broad range of computational nucleic acid systems to be designed and analyzed. The language extends standard logic programming with a novel equational theory to express…
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The psychology of virtual reality psycnet.apa.org
The psychology of technology: Social science research in the age of Big Data (pp. 155–193), American Psychological Association, 2022. [All Versions]. Jeremy Bailenson's review on the applications of Virtual Reality to behavioral studies.
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Exploring science: The cognition and development of discovery processes psycnet.apa.org
MIT Press, 2000. [All Versions]. In this book, D. Klahr sets out to describe the cognitive and developmental processes that have enabled scientists to make the discoveries that comprise the body of information we call "scientific knowledge." Over the past decade, Klahr and his…
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Tools, language and cognition in human evolution psycnet.apa.org
Cambridge University Press, 1993. [All Versions]. A classic perspective correlating human tool use with the evolution of civilization.
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Children and adults as intuitive scientists psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 1989. [All Versions]. A perspective against search as scientific thinking.
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Causal Reasoning in Rats psych.uni-goettingen.de
Science, 2006. [All Versions]. A piece of evidence for the capability of causal reasoning in intelligent animals.
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Nonparametric Bayesian Data Analysis projecteuclid.org
Statistical Science, 2004. [All Versions]. This paper reviews the current state of nonparametric Bayesian inference. The discussion follows a list of important statistical inference problems, including density estimation, regression, survival analysis, hierarchical models and…
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Expert-level protocol translation for self-driving labs proceedings.neurips.cc
NeurIPS'24, 2024. [All Versions]. [Project]. Recent development in Artificial Intelligence (AI) models has propelled their application in scientific discovery, but the validation and exploration of these discoveries require subsequent empirical experimentation. The concept of…
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Bayesian modeling of human concept learning proceedings.neurips.cc
NeurIPS'98, 1998. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This work considers the problem of learning concepts from small numbers of positive examples, a feat which humans perform routinely but which computers are rarely capable of. Bridging machine learning and cognitive science…
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Learning Latent Space Energy-Based Prior Model proceedings.neurips.cc
NeurIPS'20, 2020. [All Versions]. [Project]. [Code]. A milestone paper on Latent Energy-Based Model.
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Latent Space Factorisation and Manipulation via Matrix Subspace Projection proceedings.mlr.press
ICML'20, 2020. [All Versions].
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Functional neuroanatomy of intuitive physical inference pnas.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016. [All Versions]. A piece of evidence for the functional part of intuitive physics in human brain.
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Finding scientific topics pnas.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004. [All Versions]. A first step in identifying the content of a document is determining which topics that document addresses. This paper describes a generative model for documents, in which each document is generated by…
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Slowed Canonical Progress in Large Fields of Science pnas.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021. [All Verisions]. An analysis of why too many papers published each year in a field can lead to stagnation rather than advance.
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Scaling up psychology via Scientific Regret Minimization pnas.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020. [All Versions]. The statistical and ecological basis for scaling up behavioral studies.
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Meta-assessment of Bias in Science pnas.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017. [All Verisions]. An analysis of bias patterns and risk factors in science.
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