Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science: Towards generalizable models and theories that capture the full range of natural behavior

arXiv:2502.20349v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: How can cognitive science build generalizable theories that span the full scope of natural situations and behaviors? We argue that progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers timely opportunities for cognitive science to embrace experiments with increasingly naturalistic stimuli, tasks, and behaviors; and computational models that can accommodate these changes. We first review a growing body of research spanning neuroscience, cognitiv