Using a video game involving bombs and treasure chests, researchers show how neural activity flickers between two regions of the frontal cortex when the brain weighs up a tricky decision.

Negative reactions to sensations track with certain neurodevelopmental traits in more than 15,000 children—pointing to shared neurobiological roots.

The world’s most popular antidepressant drugs are under fire. But are they really harder to quit than heroin?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

Humans build internal models from online observations to adapt to new environments. Here, the authors show that individuals are biased towards building models with moderate structural complexity, rega...

Abstract. This special issue examines how natural and artificial intelligences (AIs) model the world, and what this modelling reveals about cognition and r

Human curiosity is dynamic, however the principles governing its fluctuations remain debated. Here, we test two competing hypotheses about how past...

Human exploration behaviour is studied using cognitive tasks where information seeking competes with reward seeking. Here the authors describe how humans discover the structure of new and uncertain en...

Running R in Docker containers is great for reproducible projects, but writing and running code in the container can be a hassle. Use Positron to SSH into local Docker containers instead!

An LLM skill for modern tidyverse R using R 4.5+, tidyverse 2.0+, and dplyr 1.2+. - statzhero/tidy-r-skill

There was a discussion recently on Bluesky about reproducible data analysis pipelines.

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Diminished use of goal-directed (model-based) decision making is a hallmark of transdiagnostic compulsivity, promoting an overreliance on inflexible and habitual behaviors. However, the origin of this...

The community has come together to create some great Claude Skills that you can try out today.

The country is facing a coming wave of dementia for its ageing population, and is investing in research into drugs, diagnostics and even surgery to prepare itself.

A wave of lawsuits will push juries to decide on an issue that researchers are still debating.

Differences in how the condition presents in girls, and co-occurring psychiatric conditions, make detection more difficult.

Learning data viz from the best: New America and Datawrapper

Antidepressant treatment shouldn't be a guessing game. RELMED is working towards using advanced research to predict which medication is most likely to help each person along their individual path to recovery.

Learning about the causal structure of the world is a fundamental problem for human cognition. Causal models and especially causal learning have proved to be difficult for large pretrained models usin...

Nature - More children and adults are being diagnosed with ADHD in some countries. Science is helping to understand why — and how best to provide support.

My explanation for the mystery of why LLMs can be both exceptionally good and quite terrible at programming.