{"title":"Active use of latent tree-structured sentence representation in humans and large language models","authors":"Wei Liu, Ming Xiang, Nai Ding","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02297-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02297-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding how sentences are represented in the human brain, as well as in large language models (LLMs), poses a substantial challenge for cognitive science. Here we develop a one-shot learning task to investigate whether humans and LLMs encode tree-structured constituents within sentences. Participants (total <i>N</i> = 372, native Chinese or English speakers, and bilingual in Chinese and English) and LLMs (for example, ChatGPT) were asked to infer which words should be deleted from a sentence. Both groups tend to delete constituents, instead of non-constituent word strings, following rules specific to Chinese and English, respectively. The results cannot be explained by models that rely only on word properties and word positions. Crucially, based on word strings deleted by either humans or LLMs, the underlying constituency tree structure can be successfully reconstructed. Altogether, these results demonstrate that latent tree-structured sentence representations emerge in both humans and LLMs.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025672","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}
Mathis Herpell, Moritz Marbach, Niklas Harder, Alexandra Orlova, Dominik Hangartner, Jens Hainmueller
{"title":"The impact of private hosting on the integration of Ukrainian refugees in Germany","authors":"Mathis Herpell, Moritz Marbach, Niklas Harder, Alexandra Orlova, Dominik Hangartner, Jens Hainmueller","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02303-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02303-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Amid the Ukrainian displacement crisis, private hosting of refugees in Europe has surged, yet its impact on integration remains understudied. This research examines the short- to medium-term effects of private hosting on Ukrainian refugee integration in Germany. Using data from one of the largest non-profit platforms that matches private hosts with refugees, we compare the multidimensional integration outcomes of refugees who were matched with private hosts to those of observably similar refugees who applied for private hosting but were not matched (<i>n</i> = 1,700). Our findings show significant improvements in the social, psychological and navigational integration of privately hosted refugees, with no discernible effects on linguistic, economic or political integration. This study provides causal evidence on the effectiveness of private hosting in enhancing refugee integration, underscoring its potential to complement traditional public asylum reception and housing systems, and to harness civil society engagement for refugee integration during humanitarian crises.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025695","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":"Personalized digital tools boost smoking quit rates","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02296-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02296-1","url":null,"abstract":"This network meta-analysis of 152 randomized controlled trials found that personalized and group-customized digital smoking-cessation interventions — particularly text messages and app-based tools — significantly improved cessation outcomes, as compared with standard care. These interventions demonstrated greatest efficacy in middle-aged adults and short-to-medium-term programmes. The work provides a foundation for future digital smoking-cessation frameworks.","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995776","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}
Daniel Pacheco-Estefan, Antoine Bouyeure, George Jacob, Marie-Christin Fellner, Katia Lehongre, Virginie Lambrecq, Valerio Frazzini, Vincent Navarro, Onur Güntürkün, Lu Shen, Jing Yang, Biao Han, Qi Chen, Nikolai Axmacher
{"title":"Publisher Correction: Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain","authors":"Daniel Pacheco-Estefan, Antoine Bouyeure, George Jacob, Marie-Christin Fellner, Katia Lehongre, Virginie Lambrecq, Valerio Frazzini, Vincent Navarro, Onur Güntürkün, Lu Shen, Jing Yang, Biao Han, Qi Chen, Nikolai Axmacher","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02305-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02305-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Correction to: <i>Nature Human Behaviour</i> https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02268-5, published online 5 August 2025.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995777","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":"Efficacy of digital interventions for smoking cessation by type and method: a systematic review and network meta-analysis","authors":"Shen Li, Yiyang Li, Chenhao Xu, Siheng Tao, Haozhen Sun, Jiaqing Yang, Yilin Wang, Sheyu Li, Xuelei Ma","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02295-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02295-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Smoking cessation is the only evidence-based approach to reducing tobacco-related health risks, yet traditional interventions suffer from limited coverage. Although digital interventions show promise, their comparative efficacy across methodological frameworks and technology types remains unclear. Here we assessed digital interventions versus standard care via frequentist random-effects network meta-analysis of 152 randomized controlled trials (48.8% USA, 7.5% China). Interventions were categorized by methodology and technology type, with cross-matched subgroup analyses. Results showed that personalized interventions significantly improved smoking cessation rates compared with standard care (relative risk (RR) 1.86, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.54–2.24), while group-customized interventions were more effective (RR 1.93, 95% CI 1.30–2.86) compared with standard digital interventions (RR 1.50, 95% CI 1.31–1.72). Among the various technology types, text message-based interventions were the most effective (RR 1.63, 95% CI 1.38–1.92). Intervention effectiveness was also influenced by age, with middle-aged individuals benefitting more than younger individuals. Short- and medium-term interventions were more effective than long-term interventions. Sensitivity analyses further confirmed these low-to-moderate findings. However, this study has some limitations, including methodological heterogeneity, potential bias and inconsistent definitions of numerical interventions. In addition, long-term follow-up data remain limited. Future studies require large-scale trials to assess long-term sustainability and population-specific responses, as well as standardization of methods and integration of data at the individual level.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144928302","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}
Meryem A. Yücel, Jessica E. Anderson, De’Ja Rogers, Parisa Hajirahimi, Parya Farzam, Yuanyuan Gao, Rini I. Kaplan, Emily J. Braun, Nishaat Mukadam, Sudan Duwadi, Laura Carlton, David Beeler, Lindsay K. Butler, Erin Carpenter, Jaimie Girnis, John Wilson, Vaibhav Tripathi, Yiwen Zhang, Bettina Sorger, Alexander von Lühmann, David C. Somers, Alice Cronin-Golomb, Swathi Kiran, Terry D. Ellis, David A. Boas
{"title":"Quantifying the impact of hair and skin characteristics on fNIRS signal quality for enhanced inclusivity","authors":"Meryem A. Yücel, Jessica E. Anderson, De’Ja Rogers, Parisa Hajirahimi, Parya Farzam, Yuanyuan Gao, Rini I. Kaplan, Emily J. Braun, Nishaat Mukadam, Sudan Duwadi, Laura Carlton, David Beeler, Lindsay K. Butler, Erin Carpenter, Jaimie Girnis, John Wilson, Vaibhav Tripathi, Yiwen Zhang, Bettina Sorger, Alexander von Lühmann, David C. Somers, Alice Cronin-Golomb, Swathi Kiran, Terry D. Ellis, David A. Boas","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02274-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02274-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a promising neuroimaging method owing to its non-invasive nature and adaptability to real-world settings. However, fNIRS signal quality is sensitive to individual differences in biophysical factors such as hair and skin characteristics, which can considerably impact the absorption and scattering of near-infrared light. If not properly addressed, these factors risk biasing fNIRS research by disproportionately affecting signal quality across diverse populations. Here we quantify the impact of hair properties and skin pigmentation, as well as head size, sex and age, on signal quality in <i>n</i> = 115 individuals. We provide recommendations for fNIRS researchers, including a suggested metadata table and guidance for cap and optode configurations, hair management techniques and strategies to optimize data collection across varied participants. This research will help to guide future hardware advances and methodological standards to overcome barriers to inclusivity in fNIRS studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927853","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":"Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility","authors":"Louis Boucherie, Benjamin F. Maier, Sune Lehmann","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02282-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02282-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Driven by access to large volumes of movement data, the study of human mobility has grown rapidly over the past few decades. The field has shown that human mobility is scale-free, proposed models to generate scale-free moving distance distributions and explained how the scale-free distribution arises. It has not, however, explicitly addressed how mobility is structured by geographical constraints, such as how mobility relates to the outlines of landmasses, lakes and rivers and the placement of buildings, roadways and cities. On the basis of millions of moves, we show how separating the effect of geography from mobility choices reveals a power law spanning five orders of magnitude. To do so, we incorporate geography via the pair distribution function, which encapsulates the structure of locations on which mobility occurs. By showing how the spatial distribution of human settlements shapes human mobility, our approach bridges the gap between distance- and opportunity-based models of human mobility.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923958","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}
Corentin J. Gosling, Laure Boisseleau, Marco Solmi, Micheal Sandbank, Lucie Jurek, Mikail Nourredine, Gabriella Porcu, Elisa Murgia, Joaquim Radua, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Klara Kovarski, Serge Caparos, Ariane Cartigny, Samuele Cortese, Richard Delorme
{"title":"Complementary, alternative and integrative medicine for autism: an umbrella review and online platform","authors":"Corentin J. Gosling, Laure Boisseleau, Marco Solmi, Micheal Sandbank, Lucie Jurek, Mikail Nourredine, Gabriella Porcu, Elisa Murgia, Joaquim Radua, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Klara Kovarski, Serge Caparos, Ariane Cartigny, Samuele Cortese, Richard Delorme","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02256-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02256-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The use of complementary, alternative and integrative medicine (CAIM) is highly prevalent among autistic individuals, with up to 90% reporting having used CAIM at least once in their lifetime. However, the evidence base for the effects of CAIM for autism remains uncertain. Here, to fill this gap, we conducted an umbrella review of meta-analyses exploring the effects of CAIM in autism across the lifespan and developed a web platform to disseminate the generated results. Five databases were searched (up to 31 December 2023) for systematic reviews with meta-analyses exploring the effects of CAIM in autism. Independent pairs of investigators identified eligible papers and extracted relevant data. Included meta-analyses were reestimated using a consistent statistical approach, and their methodological quality was assessed with AMSTAR-2. The certainty of evidence generated by each meta-analysis was appraised using an algorithmic version of the GRADE framework. This process led to the identification of 53 meta-analytic reports, enabling us to conduct 248 meta-analyses exploring the effects of 19 CAIMs in autism. We found no high-quality evidence to support the efficacy of any CAIM for core or associated symptoms of autism. Although several CAIMs showed promising results, they were supported by very low-quality evidence. The safety of CAIMs has rarely been evaluated, making it a crucial area for future research. To support evidence-based consideration of CAIM interventions for autism, we developed an interactive platform that facilitates access to and interpretation of the present results (https://ebiact-database.com).</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"139 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144910962","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}
Chun Chieh Fan, Saeid Rasekhi Dehkordi, Richard Border, Lucy Shao, Bohan Xu, Robert Loughnan, Wesley K. Thompson, Le-Yin Hsu, Mei-Chen Lin, Chi-Fung Cheng, Rou-Yi Lai, Mei-Hsin Su, Wei-Yi Kao, Thomas Werge, Chi-Shin Wu, Andrew J. Schork, Noah Zaitlen, Alfonso Buil Demur, Shi-Heng Wang
{"title":"Spousal correlations for nine psychiatric disorders are consistent across cultures and persistent over generations","authors":"Chun Chieh Fan, Saeid Rasekhi Dehkordi, Richard Border, Lucy Shao, Bohan Xu, Robert Loughnan, Wesley K. Thompson, Le-Yin Hsu, Mei-Chen Lin, Chi-Fung Cheng, Rou-Yi Lai, Mei-Hsin Su, Wei-Yi Kao, Thomas Werge, Chi-Shin Wu, Andrew J. Schork, Noah Zaitlen, Alfonso Buil Demur, Shi-Heng Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02298-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02298-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Trait similarities between spouses are a key factor that shapes the landscape of complex human traits. The driving force behind the spousal correlations can increase the overall prevalence of disorders, influence occurrences of comorbidities and bias estimations of genetic architectures. However, there is a lack of large-scale studies examining cultural differences and generational trends in spousal correlations for psychiatric disorders. Focusing on three national registries, we performed a large-scale analysis on spousal correlations across nine psychiatric disorders. We obtained the trait correlations from five million spousal pairs in Taiwan and then compared them with estimates from the Danish national registry (571,534 pairs) and with published results from the Swedish national registry (707,263 pairs). Generational changes in Taiwan for people born after the 1930s were investigated as well. We found that a majority of psychiatric disorders have consistent spousal correlations across nations and over generations, indicating their importance in the population dynamics of psychiatric disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144910963","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}
Tomi Akinyemiju, Oyomoare L. Osazuwa-Peters, Tyson H. Brown, Jude Ramos, Shaun Jones, Lauren E. Wilson, Nancy Krieger
{"title":"A latent measure of cultural racism and its association with US mortality and life expectancy","authors":"Tomi Akinyemiju, Oyomoare L. Osazuwa-Peters, Tyson H. Brown, Jude Ramos, Shaun Jones, Lauren E. Wilson, Nancy Krieger","doi":"10.1038/s41562-025-02290-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02290-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The US social context is characterized by systemic racism, a key driver of racial disparities. While structural and interpersonal racism are well-established components of systemic racism, cultural racism—a system of beliefs (ideology) and societal way of life (culture)—has been less robustly described and currently lacks a validated measure. We conducted confirmatory factor analysis on nine key indicators to define a cultural racism latent measure. In an analysis of US mortality data between 2018 and 2021 obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER system, each unit increase in the cultural racism factor was associated with ~136 (95% confidence interval, 90 to 182) all-cause deaths per 100,000 and a one-year decline in life expectancy (~−1 (−2 to −1)); these associations were consistent for both Black and white adults. The cultural racism factor substantially advances the science of racism and health and provides an empirical basis for efforts to address US health inequities.</p>","PeriodicalId":19074,"journal":{"name":"Nature Human Behaviour","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144900191","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}