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Giovanni Federico, Ciro Rosario Ilardi, Paola Marangolo, Chloé Bryche + 5 more
Humans possess a unique capacity for technical reasoning—the ability to infer and manipulate the causal structure of the physical world. Although this faculty is central to technological innovation, its neural substrates remain incompletely understood. Here, we show that grey matter volume in the left cytoarchitectonic…
Alexandre Bluet, Emanuelle Reynaud, Giovanni Federico, Chloé Bryche + 6 more
Cumulative technological culture is defined as the increase in efficiency and complexity of tools and techniques over generations. While the role of social cognitive skills in cultural transmission has been long acknowledged, recent accounts have emphasized that non-social cognitive skills such as technical reasoning…
François Osiurak, Giovanni Federico, Arnaud Fournel, Vivien Gaujoux + 4 more
Our propensity to materiality, which consists in using, making, creating, and passing on technologies, has enabled us to shape the physical world according to our ends. To explain this proclivity, scientists have calibrated their lens to either low-level skills such as motor cognition or high-level skills such as…
Giovanni Federico, Emanuelle Reynaud, Jordan Navarro, Mathieu Lesourd + 12 more
'Mathieu Lesourd' 'Vivien Gaujoux' 'Franck Lamberton' 'Danièle Ibarrola' 'Carlo Cavaliere' 'Vincenzo Alfano' 'Marco Aiello' 'Marco Salvatore' 'Perrine Seguin' 'Damien Schnebelen' 'Maria Antonella Brandimonte' 'Yves Rossetti' 'François Osiurak'] Most recent research highlights how a specific form of causal…
François Osiurak, Giovanni Federico, Arnaud Fournel, Vivien Gaujoux + 6 more
'Franck Lamberton' 'Danièle Ibarrola' 'Yves Rossetti' 'Mathieu Lesourd' 'Yanchao Bi' 'Yanchao Bi'] Our propensity to materiality, which consists in using, making, creating, and passing on technologies, has enabled us to shape the physical world according to our ends. To explain this proclivity, scientists have…
Alexandre Bluet, Emanuelle Reynaud, Giovanni Federico, Chloé Bryche + 6 more
'Mathieu Lesourd' 'Arnaud Fournel' 'Franck Lamberton' 'Danielle Ibarrola' 'Yves Rossetti' 'François Osiurak'] Title: Summary Cumulative technological culture is defined as the increase in efficiency and complexity of tools over generations. The role of social cognitive skills in cultural transmission has been long…
François Osiurak, Emanuelle Reynaud, Jordan Navarro, Mathieu Lesourd
Mechanical knowledge is not supposed to be declarative. Most people can select a knife with a sharpened edge to cut a tomato without being able to explain explicitly the cutting action. Infants as young as 4.5 months of age understand that objects cannot remain stable without support (Baillargeon et al., ). Yet, they…
Kanwar Bharat Singh
This paper presents an agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework for domain-specific technical reasoning support, instantiated over a curated corpus of approximately 2,100 academic papers in intelligent tires, vehicle dynamics, and vehicle control. Unlike conventional single-pass RAG systems, the proposed…
Eline de Jong, Sebastian De Haro
Technological understanding is not a singular concept but varies depending on the context. Building on De Jong and De Haro's (2025) notion of technological understanding as the ability to realise an aim by using a technological artefact, this paper further refines the concept as an ability that varies by context and…
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Step-by-step thinking is essential in all domains of chemical sciences and engineering. While machine learning tools are broadly used, algorithms that automate reasoning are far less common. We elaborate on seven categories of human reasoning activities and connect each to applications in chemical science and…
Zooey Nguyen, Anthony Annunziata, Vinh Luong, Dinh Viet Sang + 6 more
A Comparative Study Authors: ['Zooey Nguyen' 'Anthony Annunziata' 'Vinh Luong' 'Dinh Viet Sang' 'Quynh Lê' 'Anh Hai Ha' 'Chanh Le' 'Hong An Phan' 'Shruti Raghavan' 'Christopher Nguyen'] This paper investigates the impact of domain-specific model fine-tuning and of reasoning mechanisms on the performance of…
Yun-Fei Liu, Marina Bedny
Programming is a cornerstone of modern society, yet its cognitive and neural basis remains poorly understood. In this study, we test the hypothesis that programming “recycles” pre-existing neural mechanisms and representations in fronto-parietal reasoning networks. Using fMRI, we scanned programming-naïve…
Dries Van Daele, Nicholas Decleyre, Herman Dubois, Wannes Meert
From a set of technical drawings and expert knowledge, we automatically learn a parser to interpret such a drawing. This enables automatic reasoning and learning on top of a large database of technical drawings. In this work, we develop a similarity based search algorithm to help engineers and designers find or…
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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) structure determination is an important problem in education, industry, and research. Solving NMR spectra requires expert knowledge, critical thinking, and careful evaluation of multiple features of spectral data. This study explores the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) for…
Gregor Betz
We introduce the concept and a default implementation of Guided Reasoning. A multi-agent system is a Guided Reasoning system iff one agent (the guide) primarily interacts with other agents in order to improve reasoning quality. We describe Logikon's default implementation of Guided Reasoning in non-technical terms.…
Zinan Liu, Haoran Li, Jingyi Lu, Gaoyuan Ma + 5 more
'Giovanni Iacca' 'Arvind Kumar' 'Shaojun Tang' 'Lin Wang'] Abstract—Autonomous AI is no longer a hard-to-reach concept–it enables the machines (agents) to move beyond executing tasks to independently addressing complex problems, adapting to change while handling the uncertainty of the environment. However, what makes…
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In philosophy and science, a first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. Ancient Greek philosophy Aristotle defined the first principle as “the first basis from which a thing is known.” First principles thinking (or reasoning from first…
Graeme Horsman
One of the primary roles of a practitioner in the field of digital forensics (DF) is to conduct the examination of any lawfully seized digital device content and report upon any findings that may support an inquiry being conducted. While there are many intricacies to this task, in some cases, an inquiry will commence…
Tianfan Jin, Brett M Savoie
Contemporary machine learning algorithms have largely succeeded in automating the development of mathematical models from data. Although this is a striking accomplishment, it leaves unaddressed the multitude of scenarios, especially across the chemical sciences and engineering, where deductive, rather than inductive…
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Bayesian optimization (BO) has become increasingly important for experimental optimization across scientific domains, yet implementing BO pipelines requires significant programming expertise and familiarity with specialized frameworks. This creates a barrier for domain experts who could benefit from BO but lack the…
Anliang Zhou, Lei Dong, Yuedong Lang, Jiangping Cui + 3 more
'Jiankang Liu' 'Zhiqiang Wang'] As a tool for aviation exploration, aircraft plays a pivotal role in the aerospace field. The aircraft's lightweight can ensure that the aircraft can carry more loads, so it is of great significance to the research on the key technologies of aircraft lightweight. This paper organizes the…