{"pk":49122,"title":"Reasoning Across Minds and Machines","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Reasoning is one of the hallmarks of both natural and artificial intelligence. Understanding how reasoning operates in the human mind is crucial in cognitive science. Despite a long history of research on human reasoning in cognitive science—ranging from heuristics (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974) to mental models (Johnson-Laird, 1983), and from Bayesian modeling (Oaksford & Chater, 2007; Griffiths, Chater, & Tenenbaum, 2024) to neuroscience (Goel & Dolan, 2003)—little is known about how humans reason so flexibly in real life and how reasoning contributes to high-level cognitive functions including planning, social interaction, complex problem-solving, and open-ended mental exploration. Previous studies face challenges that hinder a deeper understanding of reasoning, including the difficulty of designing well-balanced experimental paradigms that maintain both control and ecological validity, efficient data collection and analysis beyond pure behavioral measures (e.g., Think-Aloud text data (Simon & Ericsson, 1984)), and understanding complex interactions between reasoning and other high-level cognitive functions, such as memory, theory of mind, and language.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Workshop","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5840n3s1","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Hanbo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Xie","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Jian-Qiao","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zhu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Hua-Dong","middle_name":"","last_name":"Xiong","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wilson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgia Tech","department":""},{"first_name":"Tom","middle_name":"","last_name":"Griffiths","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49122/galley/37083/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49122/galley/38628/download/"}]}