We conducted a coordinate-based meta-analysis (N = 23 studies) where we found activation in the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, anterior insula, and anterior cingulate cortex during exploration ver...

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Orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus reinstate representations of causal choices to associate with delayed outcomes, and the frontal pole supports this credit assignment process by maintaining pending...

Nature Human Behaviour - Patricia Lockwood discusses why she values peer review and participating in the peer review process, despite some of the challenges.

Individuals with symptoms of anxiety and depression exhibit persistent underconfidence. Here, the authors show that distortions in learning from local metacognition can explain how underconfidence is ...

Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.

Learning involves forming associations between sensory events that have a consistent temporal relationship. Influential theories based on prediction errors explain numerous behavioral and neurobiologi...

The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and ventromedial-prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) play a key role in decision-making and encode task states in addition to expected value. We review evidence suggesting a conne...