Nikolai Axmacher,Daniel Pacheco-Estefan,Antoine Bouyeure et al.
Nikolai Axmacher et al.
While fear memories tend to generalize, extinction learning is more context-dependent. Recent results from representational similarity analyses indicate that neural representations of extinction contexts are more distinct than context repre...
James F Cavanagh,Clay B Holroyd
James F Cavanagh
The Reward Positivity (RewP) is an electroencephalogram (EEG) feature that emerges following performance feedback and is commonly understood to index both positive and negative reward-prediction error (RPE+ and RPE-, respectively) signals. ...
Drew Linsley,Pinyuan Feng,Thomas Serre
Drew Linsley
Deep neural networks (DNNs) once showed increasing alignment with primate perception as they improved on vision benchmarks, raising hopes that advances in artificial intelligence (AI) would naturally yield better models of biological vision...
Alexandre Heeren,Susan Clayton
Alexandre Heeren
Climate anxiety has both positive and negative potential. It can spur action or hinder it, while taxing mental health. The key lies in balance: a Goldilocks zone wherein anxiety motivates without overwhelming. Cognitive processes, including...
Jesse C Niebaum,Allison Zengilowski,Benjamin Katz et al.
Jesse C Niebaum et al.
Executive functions (EFs) develop dramatically across childhood and predict important outcomes, including academic achievement. These links are often attributed to individual differences in EF capacities. However, individual difference acco...
Liad Mudrik,Nathan Faivre,Michael Pitts et al.
Liad Mudrik et al.
Progress in the scientific study of consciousness has been impeded by several fundamental controversies. One pertains to a major divide between theories: sensory versus cognitive. Here, we argue that the key to resolving this controversy is...
Tomer J Czaczkes,Tanya Latty
Tomer J Czaczkes
Many animal choices are economic, requiring the evaluation of costs and benefits. However, as in humans and other vertebrates, the behaviour of insects often deviates from economic rationality due to the cognitive and perceptual biases that...
Scott Waddell,Annie Park
Scott Waddell
Understanding the mechanistic basis of human cognition is likely to benefit from investigating how it emerged through evolution. We propose that identifying and investigating fundamental brain functions, or cognitive primitives, common betw...
Gerardo Salvato,Laura Crucianelli
Gerardo Salvato
Skin temperature and the ability to perceive warm and cold thermal stimuli (i.e., thermoception) are fundamental to human survival, influencing both our evolutionary history and early individual development. Interestingly, recent research h...
Freek van Ede,Baiwei Liu
Freek van Ede
Brain and body are fundamentally intertwined. A recent study from Cazettes et al. reveals how latent decision variables in the mouse brain can be read out from facial expressions. This shows how covert cognitive computations 'leak' into the...