The medial frontal cortex and adjacent orbitofrontal cortex have been the focus of
investigations of decision-making, behavioral flexibility, and social behavior. We review …

Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled machines to plan in tasks
previously thought to be uniquely human. Meanwhile, the planning algorithms implemented …

Replay in the brain has been viewed as rehearsal or, more recently, as sampling from a
transition model. Here, we propose a new hypothesis: that replay is able to implement a form …

Imagination is a biological function that is vital to human experience and advanced
cognition. Despite this importance, it remains unknown how imagination is realized in the …

Making good decisions requires thinking ahead, but the huge number of actions and
outcomes one could consider makes exhaustive planning infeasible for computationally …

Humans possess a remarkable ability to make decisions within real-world environments that
are expansive, complex, and multidimensional. Human cognitive computational …

The discovery of place cells and head direction cells in the hippocampal formation of freely
foraging rodents has led to an emphasis of its role in encoding allocentric spatial …

In recent years, the field of neuroscience has gone through rapid experimental advances
and a significant increase in the use of quantitative and computational methods. This growth …

The metacognitive sense of confidence can play a critical role in regulating decision making.
In particular, a lack of confidence can justify the explicit, potentially costly, instrumental …

Normative and descriptive models have long vied to explain and predict human risky
choices, such as those between goods or gambles. A recent study reported the discovery of …