Not just a virtue: the evolution of self-control by J Green and P Spikins 3 April 2020
An intriguing stab at the evolutionary origins of self-control. The limited archaeological record...
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Category: TSR ACADEMIC PAPERS
Concepts in a Probabilistic Language of Thought by Noah D. Goodman et al, 14 June 2014
An elegant explanation of language and thought and how they relate to each other. This is the sort...
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Concepts in a probabilistic language of thought by Noah Goodman et al in CBMM 14 June 2014
An elegant explanation of language and thought and how they relate to each other. This is the sort...
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The Next Decade in AI by Gary Marcus 17 February 2020
A strong argument for supplementing machine learning with symbolic manipulation. Machine learning...
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Explaining consciousness by Michael Graziano in The Philosophers Magazine Q1 2020
Consciousness is merely what one part of the brain tells the rest of the brain. Graziano is a...
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Putting old tools to novel uses: The role of form accessibility in semantic extension by Z Harmon & V Kapatsinski in Cognitive Psychology 19 August 2017
The growth of language is a shared endeavour. It almost goes without saying that the evolution of...
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Who invented the ABCs? by Colin Barras in NewScientist 8 February 2020
It’s an accident that we use the alphabet. John Darnell et al published a landmark paper in 2006....
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A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning by Will Dabney et al in Nature 30 January 2020
AI teaches neuroscience about reward signalling. Computer scientists have successfully developed...
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Emotions- from brain to robot by MA Arbib and J-M Fellous in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12 December 2004
Emotions are critical for action selection in both humans and robots. It is tempting to think that...
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Specialized coding of sensory, motor and cognitive variables in VTA dopamine neurons by Ben Engelhard et al in Nature 27 June 2019
Dopamine has numerous ways in which to express itself. Decision-making in the brain is a complex...
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Dissociable dopamine dynamics for learning and motivation by Ali Mohebi et al in Nature 6 June 2019
Dopamine system has two distinct functions: learning and motivation. Dopamine is produced...
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Infrastructure construction without information exchange: the trail clearing mechanism in Atta leafcutter ants by T Bochynek et al in Proc. R. Soc. B 23 January 2019
Research sheds fresh light on feats of social insects. There is a growing tendency to look at the...
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The Future of AI Will Be About Less Data, Not More by J Wilson, P Daugherty & C Davenport in Harvard Business Review 14 January 2019
Introducing the next big chapter in AI development. It is easy to be carried away with today’s...
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Stochastic synaptic plasticity underlying compulsion in a model of addiction by Vincent Pascoli et al in Nature 20 December 2018
The stochastic nature of neuronal networks in decision making. An intriguing experiment shows that...
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The hippocampus is crucial for forming non-hippocampal long-term memory during sleep by Anuck Sawangjit et al in Nature 6 December 2018
Hippocampus needed for consolidation of novel-object memories. Sawangjit et al start with the...
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Compound tool construction by New Caledonian crows by AMP von Bayern et al in Nature 24 October 2018
Yet another example of intelligence from the New Caledonian crow. A favourite for researchers, New...
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The attentional requirements of consciousness by MA Cohen et al in Trends in Cognitive Sciences August 2012
Attention needed for consciousness, not vice versa. Is attention synonymous with consciousness?...
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Machine theory of mind by NC Rabinowitz et al at DeepMind 21 February 2018
How a machine might infer others’ behaviour by observation. There are some interesting...
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Building Machines that Learn and Think for Themselves by M Botvinick et al in Behavioural and Brain Sciences 2017
Homing in on the conceptual design of a thinking machine. There is growing agreement all round on...
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Imagination-augmented agents for deep reinforcement learning by T Weber, S Racaniere, DP Reichert et al 19 July 2017
Planning strategies in the real world takes imagination. A team at DeepMind has developed an...
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