Schemas are rich and complex knowledge structures about the typical unfolding of events in
a context. For example, a schema of a lovely dinner at a restaurant. Schemas are central in …

The primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is implicated in diverse aspects of behavioral
regulation, cognitive control, and memory. However, direct neuropsychological evidence …

The question of how knowledge structures, or schemas, are formed and how they influence
memory and inference has posed long-standing challenges for cognitive scientists. Recent …

Behavioral flexibility requires the brain to maintain and rely on cognitive contexts for
dictating appropriate responses. Saez et al.(2015) demonstrate that such abstract rule …

Abstract Reasoning is a key component of adaptable “executive” behavior and is known to
depend on a network of frontal and parietal brain regions. However, the mechanisms by …

Tremendous progress has been made in discerning the neurocognitive basis of value-
based decision making and learning. Although the majority of studies to date have …

Research on human and animal behavior has long emphasized its hierarchical structure—
the divisibility of ongoing behavior into discrete tasks, which are comprised of subtask …

People often perceive configurations rather than the elements they comprise, a bias that
may emerge because configurations often predict outcomes. But how does the brain learn to …

Many real-life decision-making problems incorporate higher-order structure, involving
interdependencies between different stimuli, actions, and subsequent rewards. It is not …

How the brain uses reinforcement feedback to make simple choices that lead to reward is
well understood. However, this ability is often considered insufficient to account for the …