{"title":"'Helpless' infants are active, goal-directed agents: response to Cusack et al.","authors":"Martin Zettersten, Ruthe Foushee, Mariel K Goddu","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.01.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.01.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"587-588"},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144059252","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":"Repairing cognitive distortions in political divides","authors":"Luiza A. Santos, Catherine Garton, Jamil Zaki","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.06.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.06.007","url":null,"abstract":"Political animosity is on the rise, undermining both well-being and collective responses to global challenges. Interventions to decrease animosity and division often fail to yield lasting, generalized benefits. Drawing on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and new empirical evidence, we argue that entrenched political conflicts are laden with cognitive distortions similar to those observed in clinical contexts. We propose that, by adapting CBT insights to political settings, interventionists can complement and enhance current depolarizing efforts. We provide suggestions for how future efforts should equip individuals to recognize and correct biased thinking outside of the laboratory, offering a pathway toward durably mitigating division and hostility.","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515632","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":"Spared spatial imagery solves the puzzle of aphantasia","authors":"Ian Phillips","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515633","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 speech processing from time.","authors":"John B Muegge, Hyoju Kim, Bob McMurray","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Accurate processing of speech requires that listeners map temporally unfolding input to words. A long-held set of principles describes this process: lexical items are activated immediately and incrementally as speech arrives, perceptual and lexical representations rapidly decay to make room for new information; and lexical entries are temporally structured. In this framework; speech processing is tightly coupled to the temporally unfolding input. However, recent work challenges this: low-level auditory and higher-level lexical representations do not decay and are instead retained over long durations, speech perception may require encapsulated memory buffers, lexical representations are not strictly temporally structured, and listeners can substantially delay lexical access in some circumstances. These findings suggest that current theories and models of word recognition need to be reconceptualized.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144509165","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":"Model-based animal cognition slips through the sequence bottleneck.","authors":"Ivo Jacobs, Tomas Persson, Peter Gärdenfors","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.06.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.06.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144509166","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":"What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case.","authors":"Lucius Caviola, Jeff Sebo, Jonathan Birch","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.06.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How will society respond to the idea that artificial intelligence (AI) could be conscious? Drawing on lessons from perceptions of animal consciousness, we highlight psychological, social, and economic factors that shape perceptions of AI consciousness. These insights can inform emerging debates about AI moral status, ethical treatment, and future policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144498992","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}
Drew H Abney, Caitlin M Fausey, Catalina Suarez-Rivera, Catherine S Tamis-LeMonda
{"title":"Advancing a temporal science of behavior.","authors":"Drew H Abney, Caitlin M Fausey, Catalina Suarez-Rivera, Catherine S Tamis-LeMonda","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>All events unfold over time, and the temporal parameters of events matter for cognition. Yet it is common for scholars across disciplines to summarize events using atemporal statistics. Here, we underscore the urgency of illuminating the temporal structure of behavior streams and testing implications for learning. We review evidence on the importance of timing for cognition, drawing on our expertise in developmental science. We provide a framework for the quantification of single behavior streams, coordination between multiple streams, and the organization of streams across extended and multiple timescales. We highlight opportunities for methodological, analytic, and theoretical innovation to advance a temporal science of behavior. Parameterizing the temporal structure of events will accelerate scientific progress on human, animal, and artificial learning systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144498989","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":"Varieties of aphantasia.","authors":"Bence Nanay","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.06.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.06.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144498991","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":"Context, not grammar, is key to structural priming","authors":"Yngwie A. Nielsen, Morten H. Christiansen","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.016","url":null,"abstract":"Structural priming – a change in processing after repeated exposure to a syntactic structure – has been put forward as evidence for the psychological reality of constituent structures derived from grammar. However, converging evidence from memory research, large language models (LLMs), and structural priming itself challenges the validity of mapping structural representations onto grammatical constituents and demonstrates structural priming in the absence of such structure. Instead of autonomous representations specified by grammar, we propose that contextual representations emerging from multiple constraints (e.g., words, prosody, gesture) underlie structural priming. This perspective accounts for existing anomalous findings, is supported by the strong dependence on lexical cues observed in structural priming, and suggests that future research should prioritize studying linguistic representations in more naturalistic contexts.","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144335592","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}
Caroline F Rowland, Gert Westermann, Anna L Theakston, Julian M Pine, Padraic Monaghan, Elena V M Lieven
{"title":"Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition.","authors":"Caroline F Rowland, Gert Westermann, Anna L Theakston, Julian M Pine, Padraic Monaghan, Elena V M Lieven","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelligence (AI). Here, we propose a constructivist framework for future theory-building in language acquisition. We describe four components of constructivism, drawing on wide-ranging evidence to argue that theories based on these components will be well suited to explaining developmental change. We show how adopting a constructivist framework both provides plausible answers to old questions (e.g., how children build linguistic representations from their input) and generates new questions (e.g., how children adapt to the affordances provided by different cultures and languages).</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144498990","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}