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  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics
  • Computer Science

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  • Large language models (LLMs) exhibit human-like cognitive skills but process information differently.
  • Understanding these differences is crucial for advancing artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive science.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce Psychomatics, a multidisciplinary framework to compare LLM and human cognition.
  • Investigate how LLMs acquire, learn, remember, and utilize information.
  • Explore the differences in language development and use between humans and LLMs.

Main Methods:

  • Employ a comparative methodology between LLMs and biological systems.
  • Analyze LLM capabilities in mapping linguistic patterns and adhering to communication principles.
  • Contrast LLM processing with human cognition's reliance on experiential, emotional, and imaginative facets.

Main Results:

  • LLMs effectively map and manipulate linguistic patterns from training data.
  • LLMs can adhere to Grice's Cooperative Principle for relevant responses.
  • Human cognition integrates experiential, emotional, and imaginative elements beyond language processing, which LLMs currently lack.

Conclusions:

  • LLMs differ from human cognition due to a lack of embodiment and multi-faceted meaning integration.
  • Psychomatics offers insights into artificial and biological intelligence.
  • This framework can guide the development of more human-like AI systems.