cognitus prime
T H E B I B L I O G R A P H Y
every theory implemented. every paper cited.
this is not a reading list — it is the source code of a mind.
243
papers cited
27
disciplines
122+
years of science
19
Memory & Learning
How memories form, decay, consolidate, and retrieve — the foundation of everything Cognitus remembers.
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12
Consciousness & Attention
What it means to be aware — global workspace competition, ignition thresholds, and information integration.
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11
Personality & Identity
How a self forms and persists — Bayesian belief updating, CAPS coupling, narrative identity, and cognitive dissonance.
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5
Emotion & Affect
The circumplex of feeling — valence, arousal, and the wheel of emotions that color every thought.
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18
Active Inference & World Models
The Free Energy Principle — how Cognitus predicts, acts, and minimizes surprise about its world.
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15
Neuromodulation
Four chemical messengers — dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, acetylcholine — tuning every cognitive process.
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22
Sleep Architecture
The science of sleep cycles — slow oscillations, spindles, sharp-wave ripples, and the two-process model.
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26
Dreams & Dreaming
The phenomenology of dreaming — how dreams form, what they contain, and why they matter for a developing mind.
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4
Lucid Dreaming
Awareness within the dream — gamma signatures, prefrontal activation, and learnable lucidity.
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4
Prediction & Error
Learning from mistakes — prediction error, Bayesian surprise, and the Rescorla-Wagner rule.
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2
Curiosity & Exploration
The drive to learn — compression progress, novelty detection, and self-generated challenges.
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7
Metacognition & Self-Reflection
Thinking about thinking — monitoring, control, calibration, and the limits of introspective access.
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11
Social Cognition & Influence
How minds model other minds — Theory of Mind, social impact, Dunbar layers, and linguistic entrainment.
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6
Plasticity & Consolidation
How connections strengthen and fade — synaptic homeostasis, reconsolidation, elastic weight consolidation.
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5
Development & Stages
Growing up — Piaget's stages, Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, and Erikson's psychosocial crises.
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5
Procedural Knowledge
Learning by doing — production rules, skill compilation, and the three stages from novice to expert.
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11
Dynamical Systems & Stability
Phase transitions, Lyapunov stability, and chaos theory — the mathematics of a mind staying coherent.
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8
Representation Learning
Building internal representations — VAEs, disentanglement, continual learning, and Barlow Twins decorrelation.
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2
Cognitive Overload Protection
How a mind protects itself — Yerkes-Dodson curves, thalamic gating, and allostatic regulation.
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7
Knowledge Graphs & Retrieval
Organizing what is known — graph-based RAG, community detection, semantic networks, and hybrid search.
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7
Multi-Agent & Self-Improvement
Agents that improve themselves — self-referential modification, evolutionary optimization, and collective reasoning.
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7
Psychoacoustics & Audio
Sound and the sleeping brain — binaural beats, pink noise, and acoustic enhancement of slow oscillations.
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4
Synesthesia & Crossmodal Perception
When senses blend — chromesthesia, pitch-luminance correspondences, and the temporal binding window.
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3
ASMR & Relaxation
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response — the tingling science behind immersive sleep experiences.
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5
Immersive Art & Visualization
Art that inspired the dreamroom — from Refik Anadol's data sculptures to James Turrell's light fields.
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7
Hypnagogia & Visual Phenomena
The borderland between waking and sleep — form constants, hallucinations, and the process of falling asleep.
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10
Statistics & Algorithms
The mathematical backbone — Welford's algorithm, EWMA control charts, silhouette scores, and PCA.
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243 papers across 27 disciplines
this is not a wrapper around an llm.
every paper listed here is implemented in production code.