Milestones of Neurocognitive Development Lab

@milestoneslab.bsky.social

Jointly based at @mpicbs.bsky.social and UTN Exploring the developing mind through neuroimaging and behavioral science 🦊🧠 https://www.cbs.mpg.de/independent-research-groups/early-cognitive-development

New Preprint! We gave neural networks infant-like curiosity and let them free to explore. They grew brain-like architecture, followed human synaptic development, and even started to display compositional thought. So we think curiosity doesn't just come from a complex mind... it helps us build one 👇

Curiosity shapes brain-like architectures and functions

How does complex cognition emerge from simpler underlying processes? We show that two components are sufficient: infant-like curiosity and brain-like biophysical constraints jointly drive the emergenc...

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