{"title":"Restrictions on US academic freedom affect science everywhere","authors":"Frank Fernandez, Neal Hutchens","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02248-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02248-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 7","pages":"1303-1304"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144237984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We need to fight for the next generation of US researchers","authors":"Nicole C. Rust","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02246-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02246-x","url":null,"abstract":"Federal funding of science has been cut, and trainee scientists in the USA face an unstable and uncertain future. Nicole Rust explains how and why we should act to support junior US researchers at this time.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 7","pages":"1308-1308"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144237985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Runnan Cao, Jinge Wang, Chujun Lin, Emanuela De Falco, Alina Peter, Hernan G. Rey, Peter Brunner, Jon T. Willie, James J. DiCarlo, Alexander Todorov, Ueli Rutishauser, Xin Li, Nicholas J. Brandmeir, Shuo Wang
{"title":"Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus","authors":"Runnan Cao, Jinge Wang, Chujun Lin, Emanuela De Falco, Alina Peter, Hernan G. Rey, Peter Brunner, Jon T. Willie, James J. DiCarlo, Alexander Todorov, Ueli Rutishauser, Xin Li, Nicholas J. Brandmeir, Shuo Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02218-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02218-1","url":null,"abstract":"Neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus are classically thought to encode a person’s identity invariant to visual features. However, it remains largely unknown how visual information from higher visual cortical areas is translated into such a semantic representation of an individual person. Here, across four experiments (3,581 neurons from 19 neurosurgical patients over 111 sessions), we demonstrate a region-based feature code for faces, where neurons encode faces on the basis of shared visual features rather than associations of known concepts, contrary to prevailing views. Feature neurons encode groups of faces regardless of their identity, broad semantic categories or familiarity; and the coding regions (that is, receptive fields) predict feature neurons’ response to new face stimuli. Together, our results reveal a new class of neurons that bridge perception-driven representation of facial features with mnemonic semantic representations, which may form the basis for declarative memory. Cao et al. show that human amygdala and hippocampus neurons encode visual facial features, bridging perception-driven representations with mnemonic semantic representations.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 9","pages":"1959-1974"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144228617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zejin Lu, Adrien Doerig, Victoria Bosch, Bas Krahmer, Daniel Kaiser, Radoslaw M. Cichy, Tim C. Kietzmann
{"title":"End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour","authors":"Zejin Lu, Adrien Doerig, Victoria Bosch, Bas Krahmer, Daniel Kaiser, Radoslaw M. Cichy, Tim C. Kietzmann","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02220-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02220-7","url":null,"abstract":"A prominent feature of the primate visual system is its topographic organization. For understanding its origins, its computational role and its behavioural implications, computational models are of central importance. Yet, vision is commonly modelled using convolutional neural networks, which are hard-wired to learn identical features across space and thus lack topography. Here we overcome this limitation by introducing all-topographic neural networks (All-TNNs). All-TNNs develop several features reminiscent of primate topography, including smooth orientation and category selectivity maps, and enhanced processing of regions with task-relevant information. In addition, All-TNNs operate on a low energy budget, suggesting a metabolic benefit of smooth topographic organization. To test our model against behaviour, we collected a dataset of human spatial biases in object recognition and found that All-TNNs significantly outperform control models. All-TNNs thereby offer a promising candidate for modelling primate visual topography and its role in downstream behaviour. Lu et al. introduce all-topographic neural networks as a parsimonious model of the human visual cortex.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 9","pages":"1975-1991"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02220-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144228621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protracted development of gaze behaviour","authors":"Marcel Linka, Harun Karimpur, Benjamin de Haas","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02191-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02191-9","url":null,"abstract":"How does scene viewing develop? Previous evidence is limited and suggests that viewing behaviour may be adult-like from about eight years old. Here we present data from n = 6,720 participants from 5 to 72 years old, freely viewing 40 natural scenes. We found that the development of scene viewing is surprisingly protracted. Semantic salience for social features continuously changes until adolescence, and text salience increases over the first two decades of life. Basic oculomotor biases towards the image centre and along the horizontal meridian develop until adolescence, matching developmental changes in visual sensitivity and cortex. Finally, while the tendency for visual exploration continuously increases, fixation patterns become less idiosyncratic and more canonical throughout adolescence. These findings show that fundamental aspects of adult gaze take up to two decades of continuous development and push individuals towards more canonical viewing patterns. We suggest that development is key to understanding the general mechanisms of active vision. Linka et al. recorded eye movements of thousands of children and adults viewing scene images in a museum. Adult gaze was marked by well-established spatial and semantic biases. Surprisingly, children deviated from this well into their teenage years.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 9","pages":"1887-1897"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02191-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144218827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Majority support for global redistributive and climate policies","authors":"Adrien Fabre, Thomas Douenne, Linus Mattauch","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02175-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02175-9","url":null,"abstract":"We document majority support for policies entailing global redistribution and climate mitigation. Surveys on 40,680 respondents in 20 countries show strong majority support for a global carbon price funding equal cash transfers, called the Global Climate Scheme (GCS). Through our surveys on 8,000 respondents in the USA, France, Germany, Spain and the UK, we test several hypotheses that could reconcile strong stated support with scarce occurrences in public debates. Three quarters of Europeans and half of Americans support the GCS, even as they understand its cost to them. Using several experiments, we show that the support for the GCS is sincere and that political programmes that include it are preferred to programmes that do not. We document widespread support for other globally redistributive policies, such as increased foreign aid or a wealth tax funding low-income countries. In sum, global policies are genuinely supported by majorities, even in wealthy, contributing countries. Fabre et al. demonstrate widespread support for global redistributive and climate policies through surveys across 20 countries. This support is shown to be sincere, as confirmed by follow-up survey experiments in Western countries.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 8","pages":"1583-1594"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02175-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144218831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qihui Xu, Yingying Peng, Samuel A. Nastase, Martin Chodorow, Minghua Wu, Ping Li
{"title":"Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts","authors":"Qihui Xu, Yingying Peng, Samuel A. Nastase, Martin Chodorow, Minghua Wu, Ping Li","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02203-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02203-8","url":null,"abstract":"To what extent can language give rise to complex conceptual representation? Is multisensory experience essential? Recent large language models (LLMs) challenge the necessity of grounding for concept formation: whether LLMs without grounding nevertheless exhibit human-like representations. Here we compare multidimensional representations of ~4,442 lexical concepts between humans (the Glasgow Norms1, N = 829; and the Lancaster Norms2, N = 3,500) and state-of-the-art LLMs with and without visual learning, across non-sensorimotor, sensory and motor domains. We found that (1) the similarity between model and human representations decreases from non-sensorimotor to sensory domains and is minimal in motor domains, indicating a systematic divergence, and (2) models with visual learning exhibit enhanced similarity with human representations in visual-related dimensions. These results highlight the potential limitations of language in isolation for LLMs and that the integration of diverse modalities can potentially enhance alignment with human conceptual representation. Xu et al. find that large language models not only align with human representations in non-sensorimotor domains but also diverge in sensorimotor ones, with additional visual training associated with enhanced alignment.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 9","pages":"1871-1886"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02203-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144211025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea Gregor de Varda, Chiara Saponaro, Marco Marelli
{"title":"High variability in LLMs’ analogical reasoning","authors":"Andrea Gregor de Varda, Chiara Saponaro, Marco Marelli","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02224-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02224-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 7","pages":"1339-1341"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144211208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating anti-science policies in environmental public health","authors":"Qian Di","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02239-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02239-w","url":null,"abstract":"Qian Di talks about what it was like doing public health research as a Chinese scientist in the USA during the first Trump administration. His experiences foreshadow challenges that lie ahead this time around.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 7","pages":"1307-1307"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144211209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Owusu Gyapong, Mawuli Gohoho, Alfred Kwesi Manyeh, Mustapha Immurana, Margaret Gyapong
{"title":"Current state and future directions of interventions for neglected tropical diseases","authors":"John Owusu Gyapong, Mawuli Gohoho, Alfred Kwesi Manyeh, Mustapha Immurana, Margaret Gyapong","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02219-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41562-025-02219-0","url":null,"abstract":"Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) impose severe health, social and economic burdens on millions in impoverished regions. These diseases, once overlooked, have gained global attention following strategic advocacy and planning by the World Health Organization and its partners, and are now prioritized within the Sustainable Development Goals framework. In this Review, we examine current interventions including preventive chemotherapy, innovative and intensified disease management, vector control, One Health, and improvements in water, sanitation and hygiene; and we highlight the role of human behaviour and community engagement and involvement in driving intervention success, sustainability and ownership within communities. Regional disparities, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, call for tailored approaches that tackle logistical barriers, funding constraints, donor dependency, stigma and drug resistance. To control and eradicate NTDs by 2030, we require sustained political commitment, innovative financing and the greater integration of NTD strategies within broader health systems. Neglected tropical diseases impose severe health, social and economic burdens on millions in impoverished regions. This narrative Review examines current interventions and highlights the role of human behaviour and community engagement and involvement in driving intervention success, sustainability and ownership within communities.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"9 8","pages":"1557-1570"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144211024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}