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Goals Matter: Children's Exploration of Ambiguity is Sensitive to Contextual Value. 目标重要：儿童对歧义的探索对语境价值敏感。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-07-28 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70074

Elizabeth S Lapidow, Caren M Walker, Azzurra Ruggeri

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The Cultural Evolution of Human Goals. 人类目标的文化进化。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-07-28 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70078

Jérémy Perez, Cédric Colas, Gaia Molinaro, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Maxime Derex, Clément Moulin-Frier

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Goals Shape Dynamics of Attention and Selection for Value-Based Decision-Making. 目标塑造了基于价值的决策的注意和选择的动态。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-07-27 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70076

Romy Froemer, Chih-Chung Ting, Amitai Shenhav, Sebastian Gluth

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Language, Perception, and Task Design: Multiple Factors Contribute to Children's Understanding of Pitch Metaphors. 语言、知觉和任务设计：多种因素影响儿童对音高隐喻的理解。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-07-27 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70077

Viktoria Henn, Sarah J Dolscheid

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Infinite Ends From Finite Samples: Open-Ended Goal Inference as Top-Down Bayesian Filtering of Bottom-Up Proposals. 有限样本的无限终点：自顶向下贝叶斯滤波自底向上建议的开放式目标推理。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-07-23 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70075

Tan Zhi-Xuan, Gloria Kang, Vikash Mansinghka, Joshua B Tenenbaum

{"title":"Infinite Ends From Finite Samples: Open-Ended Goal Inference as Top-Down Bayesian Filtering of Bottom-Up Proposals.","authors":"Tan Zhi-Xuan, Gloria Kang, Vikash Mansinghka, Joshua B Tenenbaum","doi":"10.1111/tops.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.70075","url":null,"abstract":"The space of human goals is tremendously vast; and yet, from just a few moments of watching a scene or reading a story, we seem to spontaneously infer a range of plausible motivations for the people and characters involved. What explains this remarkable capacity for intuiting other agents' goals, despite the infinitude of ends they might pursue? And how does this cohere with our understanding of other people as approximately rational agents? In this paper, we introduce open-ended sequential inverse plan search (SIPS), a sequential Monte Carlo model of open-ended goal inference. Open-ended SIPS combines top-down Bayesian inverse planning with bottom-up sampling based on the statistics of co-occurring subgoals. By proposing goal hypotheses related to the subgoals achieved by an agent, our model rapidly generates plausible goals without exhaustive search, then filters out goals that would be irrational given the actions taken so far. We validate this model in a goal inference task called Block Words, where participants try to guess the word that someone is stacking out of lettered blocks. In comparison to both heuristic bottom-up guessing and exact Bayesian inference over hundreds of goals, our model better predicts the mean, variance, efficiency, and resource rationality of human goal inferences, achieving similar accuracy to the exact model at a fraction of the cognitive cost, while exhibiting rational pruning of irrational goal hypotheses that cannot be captured by bottom-up sampling alone. Our experiments thus highlight the importance of uniting top-down and bottom-up models for explaining the speed, accuracy, and generality of human theory of mind.","PeriodicalId":47822,"journal":{"name":"Topics in Cognitive Science","volume":" ","pages":"e70075"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148563047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An Introduction to Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development. 认知发展中的理性建构主义导论。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-07-03 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70067

Rebekah A Gelpi, Pablo Leon-Villagra, Daphna Buchsbaum, Stephanie Denison

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Fungal Memory and Minimal Cognition. 真菌记忆和最小认知。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-07-02 DOI: 10.1111/tops.70070

Kristina Šekrst

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On the Proper Treatment of Dynamics in Cognitive Science. 论认知科学对动力学的正确处理。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2023-08-02 DOI: 10.1111/tops.12686

Randall D Beer

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The Dynamical Hypothesis in Situ: Challenges and Opportunities for a Dynamical Social Approach to Interpersonal Coordination. 动态原位假说:人际协调的动态社会方法的挑战与机遇。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1111/tops.12712

Alexandra Paxton

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A Multivariate Method for Dynamic System Analysis: Multivariate Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Using Generalized Variance. 动态系统分析的多变量方法：基于广义方差的多变量去趋势波动分析。

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Topics in Cognitive Science Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.1111/tops.12688

Sebastian Wallot, Julien Patrick Irmer, Monika Tschense, Nikita Kuznetsov, Andreas Højlund, Martin Dietz

{"title":"A Multivariate Method for Dynamic System Analysis: Multivariate Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Using Generalized Variance.","authors":"Sebastian Wallot, Julien Patrick Irmer, Monika Tschense, Nikita Kuznetsov, Andreas Højlund, Martin Dietz","doi":"10.1111/tops.12688","DOIUrl":"10.1111/tops.12688","url":null,"abstract":"Fractal fluctuations are a core concept for inquiries into human behavior and cognition from a dynamic systems perspective. Here, we present a generalized variance method for multivariate detrended fluctuation analysis (mvDFA). The advantage of this extension is that it can be applied to multivariate time series and considers intercorrelation between these time series when estimating fractal properties. First, we briefly describe how fractal fluctuations have advanced a dynamic system understanding of cognition. Then, we describe mvDFA in detail and highlight some of the advantages of the approach for simulated data. Furthermore, we show how mvDFA can be used to investigate empirical multivariate data using electroencephalographic recordings during a time-estimation task. We discuss this methodological development within the framework of interaction-dominant dynamics. Moreover, we outline how the availability of multivariate analyses can inform theoretical developments in the area of dynamic systems in human behavior.","PeriodicalId":47822,"journal":{"name":"Topics in Cognitive Science","volume":" ","pages":"e12688"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13397055/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10233922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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