Australia lags behind most OECD countries when it comes to percentage of GDP spent on scientific research. Belinda Smith speaks to scientists impacted with a response from science minister Tim Ayres.

Becoming a mother for the first time is a transformative experience, resulting in widespread changes in systemic physiology, neurobiology, cognition, and the sense of self. In a recent study, Straatho...

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The foetal period constitutes a critical stage in the construction and organisation of the mammalian nervous system. In recent work, we have proposed …

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Previous research suggests that altered experiences of agency are an underlying vulnerability in both schizophrenia and autism. Here, we explore agency as a potential transdiagnostic factor by conduct...

I identify and then aim to resolve a tension between the psychological and existential conceptions of boredom. The dominant view in psychology is that boredom is an emotional state that is adaptive an...

Corcoran et al. present a Bayesian treatment of adversarial collaboration that operationalizes competing theoretical hypotheses as generative models. This approach enables the evaluation of alternati...