The persistence of drug taking despite its adverse consequences plays a central role in the
presentation, diagnosis, and impacts of addiction. Eventual recognition and appraisal of …

The central theme of this review is the dynamic interaction between information selection
and learning. We pose a fundamental question about this interaction: How do we learn what …

To tackle a hard problem, it is often wise to reuse and recombine existing knowledge. Such
an ability to bootstrap enables us to grow rich mental concepts despite limited cognitive …

When combining information across different senses, humans need to flexibly select cues of
a common origin while avoiding distraction from irrelevant inputs. The brain could solve this …

Transforming the barrage of sensory signals into a coherent multisensory percept relies on
solving the binding problem–deciding whether signals come from a common cause and …

What is a group? How do we know to which groups we belong? How do we assign others to
groups? A great deal of theorizing across the social sciences, has conceptualized “groups” …

Behavioral flexibility depends on our capacity to build and leverage abstract knowledge
about tasks. Recently, two separate lines of research have implicated distinct brain networks …

Distinguishing between meaningful and meaningless sensory information is fundamental to
forming accurate representations of the world. Dopamine is thought to play a central role in …

Prior work has shown that the brain represents memories within a cognitive map that
supports inference about connections between individual related events. Real-world …

We propose that humans spontaneously organize environments into clusters of states that
support hierarchical planning, enabling them to tackle challenging problems by breaking …