Pub Date : 2026-01-21DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.009
Toan Nong, Jun Feng, Jean-Claude Dreher
{"title":"Neurocomputational mechanisms of adaptive mentalization in humans","authors":"Toan Nong, Jun Feng, Jean-Claude Dreher","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146014386","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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-21DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.009
Halely Balaban, Tomer D. Ullman
{"title":"Emotion may indirectly link rendering and social reasoning","authors":"Halely Balaban, Tomer D. Ullman","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146014451","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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.014
Adam Zeman, Bérengère Digard, Francesca Happé, Brian Levine, Merlin Monzel
{"title":"Rendering aphantasia into the social realm","authors":"Adam Zeman, Bérengère Digard, Francesca Happé, Brian Levine, Merlin Monzel","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146014387","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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-15DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.002
Giacomo Aldegheri, Roland W Fleming
{"title":"No free lunch with the binding problem.","authors":"Giacomo Aldegheri, Roland W Fleming","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145991269","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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.003
Christian Beste, Heleen A Slagter, Christian Herff, Yukiyasu Kamitani, Sabrina Coninx, Richard van Wezel, Christian Frings
Brain-computer interface (BCI) research has achieved remarkable technical progress but remains limited in scope, typically relying on motor and visual cortex signals in limited patient populations. We propose a paradigm shift in BCI design rooted in ideomotor theory, which conceptualizes voluntary action as driven by internally represented sensory outcomes. This underused framework offers a principled basis for next-generation BCIs that align closely with the brain's natural intentional and action-planning architecture. We suggest a more intuitive, generalizable, and scalable path by reorienting BCIs around the 'what for' of action-user goals and anticipated effects. This shift is timely and feasible, enabled by advances in neural recording and artificial intelligence-based decoding of sensory representations. It may help resolve challenges of usability and generalizability in BCI design.
{"title":"Moving intentions from brains to machines.","authors":"Christian Beste, Heleen A Slagter, Christian Herff, Yukiyasu Kamitani, Sabrina Coninx, Richard van Wezel, Christian Frings","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Brain-computer interface (BCI) research has achieved remarkable technical progress but remains limited in scope, typically relying on motor and visual cortex signals in limited patient populations. We propose a paradigm shift in BCI design rooted in ideomotor theory, which conceptualizes voluntary action as driven by internally represented sensory outcomes. This underused framework offers a principled basis for next-generation BCIs that align closely with the brain's natural intentional and action-planning architecture. We suggest a more intuitive, generalizable, and scalable path by reorienting BCIs around the 'what for' of action-user goals and anticipated effects. This shift is timely and feasible, enabled by advances in neural recording and artificial intelligence-based decoding of sensory representations. It may help resolve challenges of usability and generalizability in BCI design.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145991282","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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1016/s1364-6613(25)00363-8
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Pub Date : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1016/s1364-6613(25)00366-3
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Pub Date : 2026-01-03DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.010
Zhicheng Lin
{"title":"How AI tools can enhance generalizability.","authors":"Zhicheng Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146221699","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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-02DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.005
James F. Cavanagh, Clay B. Holroyd
{"title":"The Reward Positivity signals a goal prediction error","authors":"James F. Cavanagh, Clay B. Holroyd","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145895392","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}