By harnessing a mental model of how the world works, learners can make flexible choices in changing environments. However, while children and adolesce…

Scientists are finding experimental evidence that the transition between wakefulness and sleep is a portal for creative thought.

Humans are remarkably efficient at decision making, even in “open-ended” problems where the set of possible actions is too large for exhaustive evalua…

Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.