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}
Pub Date : 2025-11-08DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.018
Julia W.Y. Kam
{"title":"Toward understanding the neurophysiological basis of spontaneous thought","authors":"Julia W.Y. Kam","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145461848","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 : 2025-11-05DOI: 10.1016/s1364-6613(25)00298-0
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Pub Date : 2025-11-05DOI: 10.1016/s1364-6613(25)00295-5
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Pub Date : 2025-11-03DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.009
Aidan J. Horner
{"title":"A neural state space for episodic memories","authors":"Aidan J. Horner","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145434587","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 : 2025-11-03DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.007
Corina U. Greven, MacKenzie D. Trupp, Judith R. Homberg, Heleen A. Slagter
{"title":"Sensory processing sensitivity: theory, evidence, and directions","authors":"Corina U. Greven, MacKenzie D. Trupp, Judith R. Homberg, Heleen A. Slagter","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145434970","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}