What Can A New Computer Model Teach Us About Human Thought

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:52.6	Welcome to a Monday edition of Cool Stuff Daily. My name's Marcus Paff. Coming up, how scientists are using AI to better understand the human brain and our thought processes as humans. That story begins right now.
1:07.4	From BBC Science Focus and author Hattie Wilmuth. A new computer model could help neuroscientist and psychologist to gain a better understanding of our thinking and behavior.
1:18.6	The model called Centaur was designed to mimic the human brain.
1:23.6	Unvealed in a recent paper published in the journal Nature, Centaur is a computer simulation,
1:30.1	driven by AI, and trained on more than 10 million choices made by real people.
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