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Ruairidh Battleday1,2, Sam Gershman1,2,3

  • 1Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences
|May 14, 2026
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artificial intelligencecognitive sciencediscoverygenerative AIinferenceproblem solvingsciencemachine learning limitationscognitive modelingcomputational discoveryparadigm shifts

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