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What imagination and memory have in common

A new study led by cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences shows that merely imagining a positive encounter with someone can make you like them better by engaging brain regions involved with learning and preference. The findings… more

Lars Meyer

The European Research Council (ERC), which promotes cutting-edge research in Europe, has awarded Lars Meyer from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig the prestigious Consolidator Grant. For his project "Language in Balance: an Imprint of Brain Electrophysiology? (BALANG)”, he will… more

Unlike conventional image processing models, human knowledge is typically organized hierarchically. The readjusted classification models have learned a representation structure that adequately reflects this hierarchy.

When AI “thinks” like us

November 13, 2025

New research forms a bridge between human and machine representation
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