Cognition & AI
Let the Wobble Teach
Why kids learn skills from wobbles, pauses, and prediction errors — and what brain replay can teach parents about practice.
Tag: Skill Acquisition
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Cognition & AI
Dopamine Doesn't Care About Your RL Textbook
The brain-runs-on-RL story is elegant, productive, and partially true. But 2025 has four new studies that make the simple version increasingly hard to defend — and the complicated version way more interesting.
Cognition & AI
A 3-Year-Old Beats GPT-4. Here's Why.
Preschoolers outperform frontier AI on visual analogy tasks. AI models skip the developmental milestone sequence children follow. Fine-tuning isn't expertise — and the difference tells us something important about both.