Papers from February 14, 2026

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit a systematic pattern of temporal reasoning errors despite possessing factual knowledge about dates, sequences, and durations. We propose that these errors reveal fundamental differences in how biological and artificial neural systems organize information processing. Drawing on Georgopoulos' population coding framework and applying linguistic relativity (Sapir-Whorf)...

The traditional academic paper was designed as a human-readable unit of knowledge under conditions of textual scarcity and print-based dissemination. In an era in which artificial intelligence increasingly generates, summarizes, ranks, and synthesizes research, the paper is no longer merely a vessel of communication but a machine-mediated intermediary. This article...

When do babies sleep worst? Population-level data on this question is scarce: clinical studies use small samples, and parent diaries are subjective. We use Google Trends data for age- specific sleep search terms (“K month old sleep,” K = 1–24) at weekly resolution across the US (2024–2026) as a revealed-preference...

The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in the production of text, images, music, and software has intensified discussions at both national and international levels regarding how the concepts of "work," "authorship," and "ownership" should be interpreted within human-centric copyright regimes. This article examines issues such as whether AI-generated outputs...

Male social exclusion is pervasive across mammalian species. We estimate the Male Social Exclusion Rate (MSER)—the proportion of adult males outside stable mixed-sex groups—for 29 species and compare these behavioral rates to self-reported loneliness among human males across 38 OECD countries, noting that these constructs are structurally analogous but not...