NeurIPS 2026 · Evaluations and Datasets Track

CogArena

A benchmark for testing AI agents on behavioral experiments.

Kianté Fernandez, Caitlin Chen, Jialu Zhou, Bartek Sadowski, Anthony C. Miceli, and Ian Krajbich
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
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An agent drives a browser through CogArena's jsPsych tasks, and the resulting trial data are scored for completion, accuracy, and behavioral signatures.
Fig. 1 CogArena tests AI agents on behavioral experiments through a web browser. Agents must interpret visual stimuli and provide responses, just like a participant in an experiment might.

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Citation

Fernandez, K., Chen, C., Zhou, J., Sadowski, B., Miceli, A. C., & Krajbich, I. (2026). CogArena: Benchmarking multimodal agents on interactive behavioral experiments. NeurIPS 2026, Evaluations and Datasets Track. arXiv:2610.36484

BibTeX 
@inproceedings{cogarena2026,
  title         = {{CogArena}: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents on Interactive Behavioral Experiments},
  author        = {Fernandez, Kiant{\'e} and Chen, Caitlin and Zhou, Jialu and Sadowski, Bartek and Miceli, Anthony C. and Krajbich, Ian},
  booktitle     = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026), Evaluations and Datasets Track},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2610.36484},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.AI},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36484}
}