The use of artificial intelligence as a tool to model, test, and understand the human mind. By building computational models that perform cognitive tasks—recognizing faces, making decisions, learning languages—researchers can create and test theories about how our own cognition might work. If an AI model behaves like a human under certain conditions, it might suggest that the human brain is using a similar computational strategy. It's cognitive science's most powerful laboratory.
Example: "They weren't sure how children learn grammar until they used AI applied to cognitive sciences to build a model that learned the same way, confirming their hypothesis."
by Dumu The Void March 11, 2026
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