Anne G. E. Collins is in the Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94712, USA. Consider a budding cook who, ...

Life can be tricky. We have so many decisions to make. It's a good thing we have an orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus to help us. These areas of the brain work together to help us sort through ...

From solving puzzles to masterfully playing a game of chess, current artificial intelligence tools have employed algorithms ...

State-dependent learning (SDL) is the phenomenon that behavior is learned better if your internal mental state is similar during practice and testing of the behavior. It is a powerful ...

In the past decades, significant advances have been made in the understanding of the computational and neural bases of reward-based learning and decision making. On the other hand, computations and ...