Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-09-16DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.08.006
Barbara Webb
Insects navigate by integrating a geocentric velocity vector, allowing them to track their position relative to a distant nest. Recent advances reveal in detail the key neural mechanisms supporting this behavior, offering new insight into how complex spatial cognition is implemented in brain circuits.
{"title":"How the insect brain keeps track of space.","authors":"Barbara Webb","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.08.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.08.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Insects navigate by integrating a geocentric velocity vector, allowing them to track their position relative to a distant nest. Recent advances reveal in detail the key neural mechanisms supporting this behavior, offering new insight into how complex spatial cognition is implemented in brain circuits.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"1077-1079"},"PeriodicalIF":17.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145076429","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 : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.09.020
Aenne A Brielmann
In a recent series of experiments, Boger and Firestone ask: How do we perceive style?'. Their findings suggest that style perception relies on basic perceptual processes involved in differentiating image content from its context. Their research highlights that we need to understand both content and style processing to fully understand perception.
{"title":"How do we see style?","authors":"Aenne A Brielmann","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.09.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.09.020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a recent series of experiments, Boger and Firestone ask: How do we perceive style?'. Their findings suggest that style perception relies on basic perceptual processes involved in differentiating image content from its context. Their research highlights that we need to understand both content and style processing to fully understand perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"1069-1070"},"PeriodicalIF":17.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145253510","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 : 2025-11-28DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.003
Gregory N. Bratman, James J. Gross
{"title":"Why nature contact is good for us","authors":"Gregory N. Bratman, James J. Gross","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"126 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145611845","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 : 2025-11-28DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.001
Cleanthis Michael, Bart Larsen, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Luke W. Hyde
{"title":"Mapping interactions between adversity and neuroplasticity across development","authors":"Cleanthis Michael, Bart Larsen, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Luke W. Hyde","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"196 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145611767","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 : 2025-11-25DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.004
Michael Pleyer, Marcus Perlman, Gary Lupyan, Koen de Reus, Limor Raviv
{"title":"The ‘design features’ of language revisited","authors":"Michael Pleyer, Marcus Perlman, Gary Lupyan, Koen de Reus, Limor Raviv","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145593453","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 : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.012
A. Ross Otto, Andrew Westbrook, Jean Daunizeau
{"title":"Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?","authors":"A. Ross Otto, Andrew Westbrook, Jean Daunizeau","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145553982","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 : 2025-11-17DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.013
Andrew R. Todd, Diana I. Tamir
Mental life is filled with thoughts about the social world and one’s place in it. Mentalizing, or ascribing mental content (e.g., preferences, beliefs, visuospatial perspectives) to others and oneself, often requires considering self-representations and target representations in relation to each other. We propose a model of mentalizing wherein simulation, which, minimally, involves activating a self-representation, facilitates two phenomena: projection (using self-representations to construct target representations) is an inherent element of simulation-driven mentalizing, and introjection (using target representations to shift self-representations) arises incidentally from simulating another’s mind. We review evidence primarily from adults supporting this model, identify theoretically-relevant factors that amplify and attenuate projection and introjection, and discuss implications for questions of longstanding interest in cognitive science (e.g., Is the self special?).
{"title":"Simulation-driven mentalizing facilitates projection and introjection","authors":"Andrew R. Todd, Diana I. Tamir","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.013","url":null,"abstract":"Mental life is filled with thoughts about the social world and one’s place in it. Mentalizing, or ascribing mental content (e.g., preferences, beliefs, visuospatial perspectives) to others and oneself, often requires considering self-representations and target representations in relation to each other. We propose a model of mentalizing wherein simulation, which, minimally, involves activating a self-representation, facilitates two phenomena: projection (using self-representations to construct target representations) is an inherent element of simulation-driven mentalizing, and introjection (using target representations to shift self-representations) arises incidentally from simulating another’s mind. We review evidence primarily from adults supporting this model, identify theoretically-relevant factors that amplify and attenuate projection and introjection, and discuss implications for questions of longstanding interest in cognitive science (e.g., Is the self special?).","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145531202","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 : 2025-11-17DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.004
H. Steven Scholte, Edward H.F. de Haan
{"title":"Beyond binding: specialization without segregation","authors":"H. Steven Scholte, Edward H.F. de Haan","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145531201","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 : 2025-11-10DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.011
Patrick Butlin, Robert Long, Tim Bayne, Yoshua Bengio, Jonathan Birch, David Chalmers, Axel Constant, George Deane, Eric Elmoznino, Stephen M. Fleming, Xu Ji, Ryota Kanai, Colin Klein, Grace Lindsay, Matthias Michel, Liad Mudrik, Megan A.K. Peters, Eric Schwitzgebel, Jonathan Simon, Rufin VanRullen
{"title":"Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems","authors":"Patrick Butlin, Robert Long, Tim Bayne, Yoshua Bengio, Jonathan Birch, David Chalmers, Axel Constant, George Deane, Eric Elmoznino, Stephen M. Fleming, Xu Ji, Ryota Kanai, Colin Klein, Grace Lindsay, Matthias Michel, Liad Mudrik, Megan A.K. Peters, Eric Schwitzgebel, Jonathan Simon, Rufin VanRullen","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145485582","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}