New tests of analogical reasoning in variants of GPT-4 now published in PNAS Nexus.

Keith’s 2024 UCLA Faculty Research lecture (recorded) is available here

Why I am not a Turing machine discusses controversies revolving around creativity, consciousness, and AI

New model of visual analogy highlighted in Nature Communications

Tests of analogical reasoning in GPT-3 and GPT-4 now published in Nature Human Behaviour, and summarized in the UCLA Newsroom

Article on AI and poetry (based on The Spider’s Thread)

Tributes to Roger Shepard (including one by Keith) on the website of the Cognitive Science Society

Paul Thagard’s review of The Spider’s Thread

Keith’s reviews of “best books on creative thinking”

Anahid Modrek’s review of Keith’s book The Spider’s Thread, in Philosophical Psychology

Ichien, N., & Holyoak, K. J. (2026). Beyond analogy: Pragmatic constraints on metaphor comprehension and production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. DOI:10.1037/xge0001919.

Holyoak, K. J. (2026). Human versus artificial creativity: A case study in poetry. Journal of Creativity, 36(1), 10018. DOI:10.1016/j.yjoc.2025.100118.

Lee, A. J., Holyoak, K. J., & Lu, H. (2025). Enhancing visuospatial mapping in relational category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Webb, T., Holyoak, K. J., & Lu, H. (2025). Evidence from counterfactual tasks supports emergent analogical reasoning in large language models. PNAS Nexus, 4(5).Holyoak, K. J. (2024). Why I am not a Turing machine. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2024.2395573

Lee, J., Wong, E.F., Cheng, P.W. (2023). Promoting Climate Actions: A Cognitive-Constraints Approach. Cognitive Psychology, 143, 10156.

Bye, J. K., Chuang, P.J., Cheng, P.W. (2023). How do humans want causes to combine their effects? the role of causal invariance for generalizable causal knowledge. Cognition, 23, 105303.

Ichien, N., Stamenković, D., & Holyoak, K. J. (2024). Large language model displays emergent ability to interpret novel literary metaphors. Metaphor and Symbol, 39(4), 296-309. DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2024.2380348.

Ichien, N., Stamenković, D., Whatley, M. C., Castel, A. D., & Holyoak, K. J. (2024). Advancing with age: Older adults excel in comprehension of novel metaphors. Psychology and Aging. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000836.

Ichien, N., Lin, N., Holyoak, K. J., & Lu, H. (2024). Cognitive complexity explains processing asymmetry in judgments of similarity versus difference. Cognitive Psychology, 151, 101661.

Archives of Thinking and Reasoning section has been added to the Reasoning Lab website, with historical records from the early days of the discipline.