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ArticleNature2025

Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks.

Li Ji-An, Marcus K Benna, Marcelo G Mattar

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. AI-driven complex systems redefine cognitive science.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2026
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  8. Predictive pursuit emerges in high-dimensional recurrent neural networks.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  15. Designing Neural Dynamics: From Digital Twin Modeling to Regeneration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  19. Automating the practice of science: Opportunities, challenges, and implications.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  20. Semantic Anchors Facilitate Task Encoding in Continual Learning.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Li Ji-AnDepartment of Neurobiology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Marcus K BennaDepartment of Neurobiology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8100-2857
Marcelo G MattarDepartment of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA. marcelo.mattar@nyu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3303-2490

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding how animals and humans learn from experience to make adaptive decisions is a fundamental goal of neuroscience and psychology. Normative modelling frameworks such as Bayesian inference

Indexed as

CognitionDecision MakingRecurrent Neural NetworksAlgorithmsAnimalsArtificial IntelligenceBayes TheoremChoice BehaviorFemaleHumansLearningMaleModels, NeurologicalReinforcement, PsychologyReward

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PMID40604278
PMCPMC12390849

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