A team of NYU researchers identified a particular part of the brain that serves as an “inference engine.” The region, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), allows animals to update their understanding of ...

This manuscript makes a valuable contribution to understanding learning in multidimensional environments with spurious associations, which is critical for understanding learning in the real world. The ...

Department of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, Section of Educational Neuroscience, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences & LEARN! Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, ...

Repeated measurements of the same countries, people, or groups over time are vital to many fields of political science. These measurements, sometimes called time-series cross-sectional (TSCS) data, ...

Chimpanzees exhibit some very human-like behaviors: they use a huge array of tools, they "mourn" the deaths of group members, and they can even ride Segways. We’ve known for a while that chimps make ...