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Josh Tenenbaum – Computational Cognitive Science

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Professor Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Home Page Email: jbt AT mit DOT edu Phone: 617-452-2010 (office), 617-253-8335 (fax) Mail: Building 46-4015, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 Curriculum Vitae (as of June 2020) My colleagues and I in the Computational Cognitive Science group study one of the most basic and distinctively human aspects of cognition: the ability to learn so much about the world, rapidly and flexibly. Given just a few relevant experiences, even young children can infer the meaning of a new word, the hidden properties of an object or substance, or the existence of a new causal relation or social rule. These inferences go far beyond the data given: after seeing three or four examples of “horses”, a two-year-old will confidently judge whether any new entity is a horse or not, and she will be mostly correct, except for the occasional donkey or camel. We want to understand these everyday inductive leaps in com

Josh Tenenbaum – Computational Cognitive Science Lab Skip to content Josh Tenenbaum Professor Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: jbt AT mit DOT edu Phone: 617-452-2010 (office), 617-253-8335 (fax) Mail: Building 46-4015, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 Curriculum Vitae (as of April 2026) Research interests My colleagues and I in the Computational Cognitive Science group study one of the most basic and distinctively human aspects of cognition: the ability to learn so much about the world, rapidly and flexibly. Given just a

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