Colloque - Floris de Lange : Uniquely Human Prediction?

Stanislas Dehaene Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale Année 2025-2026 Collège de France Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain Theme: Human Singularity Uniquely Human Prediction? Colloque - Floris de Lange : Uniquely Human Prediction? Floris de Lange Résumé The brain is fundamentally a predictive organ that uses internal models to extrapolate future events from current inputs. While this predictive capacity exists across species, what may be uniquely human are the specific internal models we employ. Using AI tools to quantify predictability in naturalistic environments, we can examine prediction at multiple levels of abstraction. In my talk I will highlight recent work from the domain of language, music and visual perception, elucidating how uniquely human experiences and capabilities shape our predictive models of the world.