Matter of Minds

Spatiotemporal Pattern Learning The ability to learn a wide variety of structured concepts from sparse, ambiguous input is one of the hallmarks of human intelligence. This study probes the evolutionary and developmental origins of this ability by comparing the performance of human adults, children, and macaque monkeys in a simple but surprisingly rich and open-ended spatiotemporal sequence prediction task: guessing "Where will the dot go next?" 

VR: Find the Orange Interact with a VR tabletop to locate and grasp items.

Exploring Human Visual Perception with High-End VR: Insights from Real and Altered Worlds Immerse yourself in realistic and altered environments, using the Quest’s new VR infrastructure. This demonstration showcases the new VR infrastructure at the MIT Quest, designed to facilitate cutting-edge research on visual perception, featuring the Varjo XR-4 professional headset.

Word to World Models: Induction & Deduction in the Human Brain The capacity to induce novel logical structures from experience and deduce what follows from them is ubiquitous in humans. This project explores the neural basis of inductive and deductive logical reasoning — particularly in the context of our brain’s other high-level processing networks for language and for abstract domain-general cognition.

Brain-Score: Which Artificial Neural Network is the most Brain-Like? Brain-Score is a comprehensive benchmarking platform that evaluates how well computational models match neural and behavioral data from the brain. 

PsychoScope: A scalable measurement tool for human cognition Crowdsourced, large-scale datasets of behavior are a key component in building modern AI systems – and increasingly, in building and verifying scientific models of cognition. PsychoScope is a software platform which enables non-experts to seamlessly collect, share, and compute on high-quality, gold-standard empirical measurements of human cognition.

Stimulus Library/iCatcher+ Stimulus Library, supported by the MIT Quest for Intelligence and Lookit, is an open registry of reusable experimental stimuli. By enabling the sharing and reuse of stimuli, Stimulus Library reduces the time required to set up experiments and fosters collaboration among researchers. 

GenBrain Cortico-cortical computation as real-time spiking neural inference in probabilistic programs

ChiSight real-time 3D object perception via probabilistic programming

ChiExpert grounded conversational AI with real-time inference in learned word models 

GenJAX an open-source platform for massively parallel probabilistic programming