Mike Frank
Professor of psychology at Stanford University whose lab focuses on language learning and cognition in children, and who studies language models as cognitive models.
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Mar 26, 2026 • 1h 21min
What can AI teach us about the mind?
Gary Lupyan, a UW–Madison psychologist who studies language and cognition, and Mike Frank, a Stanford psychologist focused on language learning in children, explore what modern AI reveals about the mind. They compare LLMs to child learning, debate data gaps and grounding, examine language as a potent training signal, and probe model reasoning, confabulations, and the limits of pattern matching.
