Animals are born with extensive innate behavioral capabilities, which arise from neural circuits encoded in the genome. However, the information ca...

Abstract. Our environment contains temporal information unfolding simultaneously at multiple timescales. How do we learn and represent these dynamic and overlapping information streams? We investigate...

The ability to switch between different tasks is a core component of adaptive cognition, but a mechanistic understanding of this capacity has remained elusive. Longstanding questions over whether task...

Complex natural systems defy analysis using a standard mathematical toolkit, so one ecologist is throwing out the equations.

Computational Brain & Behavior -

People often give instructions whose meaning is ambiguous without further context, expecting that their actions or goals will disambiguate their intentions. How can we build assistive agents that foll...