Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity

Geometry of sequence working memory in macaque prefrontal cortex

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Brains and algorithms partially converge in natural language processing

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A theory of memory for binary sequences: Evidence for a mental compression algorithm in humans

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Generating conjectures on fundamental constants with the Ramanujan Machine

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Sensitivity to geometric shape regularity in humans and baboons: A putative signature of human singularity

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Mental compression of spatial sequences in human working memory using numerical and geometrical primitives

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Mechanisms for handling nested dependencies in neural-network language models and humans

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Seeing and speaking: How verbal “description length” encodes visual complexity.

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Working Memory for Spatial Sequences: Developmental and Evolutionary Factors in Encoding Ordinal and Relational Structures

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Human neocortical expansion involves glutamatergic neuron diversification

(2021) Jim Berg et al.   NATURE

Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI

(2021) Alex Davies et al.   NATURE

Allometric rules for mammalian cortical layer 5 neuron biophysics

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The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing

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Disjunctive inference in preverbal infants

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Recursion in programs, thought, and language

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Dendritic action potentials and computation in human layer 2/3 cortical neurons

(2020) Albert Gidon et al.   SCIENCE

Cross-species cortical alignment identifies different types of anatomical reorganization in the primate temporal lobe

(2020) Nicole Eichert et al.   eLife

Recursive sequence generation in monkeys, children, U.S. adults, and native Amazonians

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Situating the Left-Lateralized Language Network in the Broader Organization of Multiple Specialized Large-Scale Distributed Networks

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Symbolic labeling in 5-month-old human infants

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Linguistic generalization and compositionality in modern artificial neural networks

(2019) Marco Baroni   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Production of Supra-regular Spatial Sequences by Macaque Monkeys

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Precursors of logical reasoning in preverbal human infants

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Whole brain comparative anatomy using connectivity blueprints

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Enhanced Dendritic Compartmentalization in Human Cortical Neurons

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Representation of spatial sequences using nested rules in human prefrontal cortex

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The Universal Generative Faculty: The source of our expressive power in language, mathematics, morality, and music

(2017) Marc D. Hauser et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS

Cortical circuits for mathematical knowledge: evidence for a major subdivision within the brain's semantic networks

(2017) Marie Amalric et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Neurophysiological dynamics of phrase-structure building during sentence processing

(2017) Matthew J. Nelson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conserved Sequence Processing in Primate Frontal Cortex

(2017) Benjamin Wilson et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

The language of geometry: Fast comprehension of geometrical primitives and rules in human adults and preschoolers

(2017) Marie Amalric et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Language and thought are not the same thing: evidence from neuroimaging and neurological patients

(2016) Evelina Fedorenko et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Building machines that learn and think like people

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Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory

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Origins of the brain networks for advanced mathematics in expert mathematicians

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The logical primitives of thought: Empirical foundations for compositional cognitive models.

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Pragmatic Language Interpretation as Probabilistic Inference

(2016) Noah D. Goodman et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Representation of Numerical and Sequential Patterns in Macaque and Human Brains

(2015) Liping Wang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cortical tracking of hierarchical linguistic structures in connected speech

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Distinct Cortical Pathways for Music and Speech Revealed by Hypothesis-Free Voxel Decomposition

(2015) Sam Norman-Haignere et al.   NEURON

The Neural Representation of Sequences: From Transition Probabilities to Algebraic Patterns and Linguistic Trees

(2015) Stanislas Dehaene et al.   NEURON

Human-level concept learning through probabilistic program induction

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Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language

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Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving

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Toward a computational framework for cognitive biology: Unifying approaches from cognitive neuroscience and comparative cognition

(2014) W. Tecumseh Fitch   Physics of Life Reviews

Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song-learning birds

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A Conserved Pattern of Differential Expansion of Cortical Areas in Simian Primates

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Stepwise acquisition of vocal combinatorial capacity in songbirds and human infants

(2013) Dina Lipkind et al.   NATURE

Ontogeny and phylogeny of language

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Long-range Order in Canary Song

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Language-Selective and Domain-General Regions Lie Side by Side within Broca’s Area

(2012) Evelina Fedorenko et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Monkey to human comparative anatomy of the frontal lobe association tracts

(2011) Michel Thiebaut de Schotten et al.   CORTEX

Cortical representation of the constituent structure of sentences

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How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction

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A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2011) C. S. Henshilwood et al.   SCIENCE

Similar patterns of cortical expansion during human development and evolution

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Broca's Area Homologue in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Probabilistic Mapping, Asymmetry, and Comparison to Humans

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Symbolic representation of number in chimpanzees

(2009) Tetsuro Matsuzawa   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Prefrontal cortex and the evolution of symbolic reference

(2009) Andreas Nieder   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Natural pedagogy

(2009) Gergely Csibra et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds

(2008) Derek C. Penn et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

The evolution of the arcuate fasciculus revealed with comparative DTI

(2008) James K Rilling et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The discovery of structural form

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Game Theory of Mind

(2008) Wako Yoshida et al.   PLoS Computational Biology