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Extensive evidence suggests that cognitive performance is typically enhanced under increased motivation, often in the form of reward anticipation. Whi…

We tend to interpret feedback in ways that confirm our pre-existing beliefs. Such confirmatory tendencies are often viewed as cognitive flaws, but mig…

Early in development, children can infer latent structure in the world from sparse and ambiguous evidence. Through a process known as structure learning, they extract statistical regularities, const...

Nicholas and Mattar found that people use episodic memory to make decisions when it is unclear what will be needed in the future. These findings reveal how the rich representational capacity of episod...

The Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate position to work in the DiNicola Lab. The DiNicola lab uses a precision neuroscien...

Child & Adolescent Translational Science Lab at Northwestern University

Adolescence is a dynamic time period, marked by significant neural and behavioral maturation. However, much remains unknown about how this maturation …

Making rewarding choices can require either generalization or individuation. Here, the authors show that across contexts, people adapt the specificity with which they represent and, increasingly acros...

Peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing basic neuroscience research in the areas of neuronal plasticity, learning and memory