Adaptive reward-related decision making requires accurate prospective consideration of the
specific outcome of each option and its current desirability. These mental simulations are …

Efficient foraging is essential to survival and depends on frontal cortex in mammals.
Because of its role in psychiatric disorders, frontal cortex and its contributions to reward …

Reinforcement learning methods have recently been very successful at performing complex
sequential tasks like playing Atari games, Go and Poker. These algorithms have …

We often remember the consequences of past choices to adapt to changing circumstances.
Recalling past events requires the hippocampus (HPC), and using stimuli to anticipate …

The ability to use environmental cues to flexibly guide responses is crucial for adaptive
behavior and is thought to be controlled within a series of cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo …

A history of heavy drinking increases vulnerability to, and the severity of, Alzheimer's
Disease (AD) and related dementias, with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) identified as the …

The ability to use information from one's prior actions is necessary for decision-making.
While orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has been hypothesized as key for inferences made using …

Highlights•Individuals vary in learning ability, and personality may explain why this
is.•Aggression and latency to emerge were repeatable personality traits in crickets.•Crickets …

Memory-updating is critical in dynamic environments because updating memories with new
information promotes versatility. However, little is known about how memories are updated …

Reversal learning depends on cognitive flexibility. Many reversal learning studies assess
cognitive flexibility based on the number of reversals that occur over a test session …