Taylor Webb
Preprints

Webb, T. W., Frankland, S. M., Altabaa, A., Krishnamurthy, K., Campbell, D., Russin, J., O'Reilly, R., Lafferty, J., & Cohen, J. D. (2023). The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction. arXiv preprint. pdf

Webb, T. W.*, Mondal, S. S.*, Wang, C., Krabach, B., & Momennejad, I. (2023). A Prefrontal Cortex-inspired Architecture for Planning in Large Language Models. arXiv preprint. pdf

* Equal contribution

Altabaa, A., Webb, T. W., Cohen, J. D., & Lafferty, J. (2023). Abstractors: Transformer Modules for Symbolic Message Passing and Relational Reasoning. arXiv preprint. pdf

Frankland, S. M., Webb, T. W., & Cohen, J. D. (2021). No Coincidence, George: Capacity-Limits as the Curse of Compositionality. PsyArXiv preprint. pdf

Publications (Archival)

Webb, T. W., Holyoak, K. J., & Lu, H. (2023). Emergent analogical reasoning in large language models. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 1526-1541. pdf

Webb, T. W.*, Fu, S.*, Bihl, T., Holyoak, K. J., & Lu, H. (2023). Zero-shot visual reasoning through probabilistic analogical mapping. Nature Communications, 15, 5144. pdf

Webb, T. W., Miyoshi, K., Yan So, T., Rajananda, S., & Lau, H. (2023). Natural statistics support a rational account of confidence biases. Nature Communications, 14, 3992. pdf

Webb, T. W.*, Mondal, S. S.*, & Cohen, J. D. (2023). Systematic visual reasoning through object-centric relational abstraction. In 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). pdf

Mondal, S. S.*, Webb, T. W.*, & Cohen, J. D. (2023). Learning to reason over visual objects. In 11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). pdf

* Equal contribution

Mondal, S. S., Frankland, S. M., Webb, T. W., & Cohen, J. D. (2023). Determinantal Point Process Attention Over Grid Codes Supports Out-of-Distribution Generalization. eLife, 12, RP89911. pdf

Webb, T. W., Sinha, I., & Cohen, J. D. (2021). Emergent symbols through binding in external memory. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). pdf

Webb, T. W., Dulberg, Z., Frankland, S. M., Petrov, A. A., O'Reilly, R. C., & Cohen, J. D. (2020). Learning representations that support extrapolation. In 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). pdf

Wilterson, A. I., Kemper, C. M., Kim, N., Webb, T. W., Reblando, A. M., & Graziano, M. S. A. (2020). Attention control and the attention schema theory of consciousness. Progress in Neurobiology, 195, 101844. pdf

Guterstam, A., Kean, H. H., Webb, T. W., Kean, F. S., & Graziano, M. S. A. (2019). Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an invisible, force-carrying beam projecting from the eyes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(1), 328-333. pdf

Bio, B. J., Webb, T. W., & Graziano, M. S. A. (2018). Projecting one’s own spatial bias onto others during a theory-of-mind task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(7), E1684-E1689. pdf

Webb, T. W., Igelstrom, K. M., Schurger, A., & Graziano, M. S. A. (2016). Cortical networks involved in visual awareness independent of visual attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(48), 13923-13928. pdf

Igelstrom, K. M., Webb, T. W., & Graziano, M. S. A. (2016). Functional connectivity between the temporoparietal cortex and cerebellum in autism spectrum disorder. Cerebral Cortex, 27(4), 2617-2627. pdf

Igelstrom, K. M., Webb, T. W., Kelly, Y. T., & Graziano, M. S. A. (2016). Topographical organization of attentional, social and memory processes in the human temporoparietal cortex. Eneuro, 3(2). pdf

Webb, T. W., Kean, H. H., & Graziano, M. S. A. (2016). Effects of awareness on the control of attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(6), 842-851. pdf

Igelstrom, K. M., Webb, T. W., & Graziano, M. S. A. (2015). Neural processes in the human temporoparietal cortex separated by localized independent component analysis. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(25), 9432-9445. pdf

Webb, T. W., & Graziano, M. S. A. (2015). The attention schema theory: a mechanistic account of subjective awareness. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 500. pdf

Graziano, M. S. A., & Webb, T. W. (2014). A mechanistic theory of consciousness. International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 6(02), 163-176. pdf

Kelly, Y. T., Webb, T. W., Meier, J. D., Arcaro, M. J., & Graziano, M. S. A. (2014). Attributing awareness to oneself and to others. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(13), 5012-5017. pdf

Conference Proceedings (Non-Archival)

Webb, T. W., Miyoshi, K., Yan So, T., & Lau, H. (2021). A task-optimized neural network model of decision confidence. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Dulberg, Z., Webb, T. W., & Cohen, J. D. (2021). Modelling the development of counting with memory-augmented neural networks. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Frankland, S. M., Webb, T. W., Petrov, A. A., O’Reilly, R. C., & Cohen, J. D. (2019). Extracting and Utilizing Abstract, Structured Representations for Analogy. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Book Chapters

Miyoshi, K., Webb, T. W., Rahnev, D., & Lau, H. (2024). Confidence and metacognition. In Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. pdf

Graziano, M. S. A., & Webb, T. W. (2018). Understanding consciousness by building it. In The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness, 187. pdf

Graziano, M. S. A., & Webb, T. W. (2016). From sponge to human: The evolution of consciousness. In Evolution of Nervous Systems: Second Edition (pp. 547-554). Kaas J. and Krubitzer L., Eds., Elsevier. pdf