Brains can gracefully weed out irrelevant stimuli to guide behavior. This feat is believed to
rely on a progressive selection of task-relevant stimuli across the cortical hierarchy, but the …

Cognitive flexibility is a fundamental ability that enables humans and animals to exhibit
appropriate behaviors in various contexts. The thalamocortical interactions between the …

During delayed ballistic reaches, motor areas consistently display movement-specific activity
patterns prior to movement onset. It is unclear why these patterns arise: while they have …

Research on the role of the hippocampus in memory acquisition has generally focused on
active learning. But to understand memory, it is at least as important to understand …

Computational models of addiction often rely on a model-free reinforcement learning (RL)
formulation, owing to the close associations between model-free RL, habitual behavior and …

The human brain's remarkable motor adaptability stems from the formation of context
representations and the use of a common context representation (eg, an invariant task …

Transfer learning, the reuse of newly acquired knowledge under novel circumstances, is a
critical hallmark of human intelligence that has frequently been pitted against the capacities …

We investigated the human capacity to acquire multiple visuomotor mappings for de novo
skills. Using a grid navigation paradigm, we tested whether contextual cues implemented as …

Computational models of addiction often rely on a model-free reinforcement learning (RL)
formulation, owing to the close associations between model-free RL, habitual behavior and …

Motor improvements have been linked to reward magnitude in deterministic contexts.
Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether individual inferences about reward probability …