Tyler Brooke-Wilson

I am interested in Cognitive Architectures: unified computational models of the mind and brain. The guiding observation is that people are able to think about so many things, so deeply. They learn from a fraction of the data today's AI requires, and what they learn they often understand more deeply. My goal is to understand how this works computationally in the mind and brain, to understand people and build better AI.

I developed the Model Synthesis Architecture (MSA) framework – the idea that the mind solves tasks by on-the-fly synthesis of task-specific mental models. You can find our work exploring this idea here.

I am an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Philosophy at Yale and faculty investigator at the Wu Tsai Institute's Center for Neurocomputation and Machine Intelligence, where I run the Computational Cognitive Architectures (CoCoArc) Lab.

Some current research directions ––

Computational Modeling of Human Cognition: We use Model Synthesis Architectures to model human reasoning and planning in open-world environments, with the aim of explaining how people reason in novel settings.

Medical Model Synthesis Architectures: A Case Study (ICLR Workshop 2026)

Philosophy of Cognitive Science: I develop theoretical arguments about the computational structure of the mind, drawing on AI, neuroscience, and theoretical computer science.

How Is Perception Tractable (Philosophical Review 2023)

[Title Redacted for Blind Review] –– A paper on the computational differences between perception and cognition.

Bounded Rationality as a Strategy for Cognitive Science (MIT PhD 2023)

I am recruiting PhD students and postdocs interested in Model Synthesis Architectures for cognitive science and AI. If you'd like to work with me as a PhD student, please apply through Yale Computer Science. Or as a Postdoc, please email me.

Email: tyler.brooke.wilson@gmail.com

Twitter: @t_brookewilson

CV: Here

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