How machine cognition research bridges to human CogSci: a Yale linguistics talk
najoungkim · x · 2026-10-22
Computational linguist Najoung Kim gave a Yale Linguistics colloquium talk, "Beyond associative: insights from AI," featuring her signature bridge figure: Machine CogSci and Human CogSci each run theory-to-experiment loops, connected by philosophical commitments and theories of computation/representation, plus still-underdeveloped hypothesis-generation frameworks.
The figure lays out the methodology of using AI to study cognition: theories in both fields require hypothesis testing and revision, while cross-domain hypothesis generation remains the weak link.
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