A new study considers how people acquire and utilize knowledge about causal relationships.
The act of remapping an area can be mathematically modeled as probabilistic reasoning in rodents.
A new role for the hippocampus involving pattern separation and conjunctive representation in reinforcement learning is discussed.
A new article questions what gives us purpose in life? Researchers speculate it is our drive to extract meaning from the world around us.
Researchers reveal lullabies help sooth both baby and mom simultaneously. Additionally, playing music to babies help increase their attention and positive displays of emotion to their mothers.
A new paper reports fully investigating the brain before the onset of dementia may herald clues for developing new treatments for Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers shed light on areas of the brain associated with metacognitive judgement.
Hypnotic suggestion can trigger visual hallucinations similar to those experienced by people with synethesia, researchers report.
A new study disputes a myth popularized by Freud. Reporting in Neuropsychological Review, researchers say they have found no association between obsessive compulsive disorder and higher IQ.
A new neuroimaging study reveals self control varies depending on the importance of the decision. Self control, researchers note, may also be augmented when people are asked to justify their decisions.
Researchers contradict the accepted view that we biologically evolved a capacity for numerical cognition.
Researchers are utilizing neuroimaging data to identify brain patterns and predict depression with the help of machine learning.
