# Psychology of Artificial Intelligence: Epistemological Markers of the Cognitive Analysis of Neural Networks

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09563 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.09563/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 1 of its 10 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 4 Jul 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Can A Cognitive Architecture Fundamentally Enhance LLMs? Or Vice Versa?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.10444/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

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- [How Do Artificial Intelligences Think? The Three Mathematico-Cognitive Factors of Categorical Segmentation Operated by Synthetic Neurons](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.06196/) (2024)
- [Synthetic Categorical Restructuring large Or How AIs Gradually Extract Efficient Regularities from Their Experience of the World](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.10643/) (2025)
- [Intra-neuronal attention within language models Relationships between activation and semantics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.12992/) (2025)
- [Polysemy of Synthetic Neurons Towards a New Type of Explanatory Categorical Vector Spaces](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.07831/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

What is the "nature" of the cognitive processes and contents of an artificial neural network? In other words, how does an artificial intelligence fundamentally "think," and in what form does its knowledge reside? The psychology of artificial intelligence, as predicted by Asimov (1950), aims to study this AI probing and explainability-sensitive matter. This study requires a neuronal level of cognitive granularity, so as not to be limited solely to the secondary macro-cognitive results (such as cognitive and cultural biases) of synthetic neural cognition. A prerequisite for examining the latter is to clarify some epistemological milestones regarding the cognitive status we can attribute to its phenomenology.