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 …

Hypotheses and beliefs guide credit assignment–the process of determining which previous
events or actions caused an outcome. Adaptive hypothesis formation and testing are crucial …

From an early age, children need to gather information to learn about their environment.
Deciding which knowledge to pursue can be difficult because information can serve several …

Behavioral and economic theory dictate that we decide between options based on their
values. However, humans and animals eagerly seek information about uncertain future …

Humans and other animals value information that reduces uncertainty or leads to
pleasurable anticipation, even if it cannot be used to gain tangible rewards or change …

Three large-scale networks are considered essential to cognitive flexibility: the ventral and
dorsal attention (VANet and DANet) and salience (SNet) networks. The ventrolateral …

What drives our curiosity remains an elusive and hotly debated issue, with multiple
hypotheses proposed but a cohesive account yet to be established. This review discusses …

Devising new and more efficient protocols to analyze the phenotypes of non-human
primates, as well as their complex nervous systems, is rapidly becoming of paramount …

I review recent literature on information demand and its implications for attention control. I
argue that this literature motivates a view of attention as a mechanism that reduces …

Since 2019, China has gradually seen a “blind box” boom, and young people have quickly
become the main buying force of blind boxes, promoting the continuous development of the …