Biological brains are dynamic. Recent advances in electrophysiology and neuroimaging have helped uncover various mechanisms through which brains construct and utilize rich variations in neural …
This combined EEG/pupillometry study examined whether activity within the locus coeruleus-noradrenergic (LC-NA) system can be elicited by infrequent stimuli under both bottom-up (stimulus driven) and …
Even as religious devotion becomes less and less mainstream, undergraduate students continue to practice religion despite the friction with which it often grinds against the …
Models of collective motion assume that pedestrians average over the entire neighborhood. However, there are many situations in which pedestrians are not averaging, such as …
The selective learning literature has shown that children are able to track informants’ epistemic status, such as their history of accuracy, and use this information …
In order to navigate a complex web of relationships, an individual must learn and represent the connections between people in a social network. However, the …
Visually guided action is successful even when the human perceptual system fails to recover veridical 3D structures of objects. The dual visual stream account explains …
Given that rats are both highly social animals and are commonly used in cognitive research, they are a prime candidate to investigate underlying mechanisms of …
Echolocating bats use an active perceptual system, also known as biosonar, that allows them to navigate and forage in complete darkness by emitting ultrasonic vocalizations …
Perception of the 3D world is intuitive and effortless. The visual system is capable of processing the complexities in the retinal image to produce percepts …
The medial temporal lobe (MTL) plays important roles in humans and animal cognition, for example, in episodic memory and spatial navigation. In rodents, two prominent …
Zero-sum bias refers to intuitively judging a scenario to be zero-sum when in fact win-win outcomes are available. While prior research has documented this bias …
How do humans learn to adaptively function in a fundamentally uncertain social world? Since we cannot directly observe the contents of other people’s minds, the …
The Online Processing of Dynamics Model (OPoD) offers a compelling alternative explanation for the perception of mass and the motor object bias. In contrast to …
Flexibility in rule use is crucial for learning, decision making, and future planning. Children that can flexibly use rules in novel contexts benefit both socially …
Walking on our daily commutes, we encounter dozens of other pedestrians but rarely do we collide with them. Previous omniscient collision avoidance models assume 3D …
