Animals have sophisticated mechanisms for co** with danger. Freezing is a unique state
that, upon threat detection, allows evidence to be gathered, response possibilities to be …

Fear and anxiety play a central role in mammalian life, and there is considerable interest in
clarifying their nature, identifying their biological underpinnings, and determining their …

One of the most exciting new developments in systems neuroscience is the progress being
made toward neurophysiological experiments that move beyond simplified laboratory …

Psychology and neuroscience are concerned with the study of behavior, of internal cognitive
processes, and their neural foundations. However, most laboratory studies use constrained …

Naturalistic observations show that decisions to avoid or escape predators occur at different
spatiotemporal scales and that they are supported by different computations and neural …

Decisions made by mammals and birds are often temporally extended. They require
planning and sampling of decision-relevant information. Our understanding of such decision …

Interest in the application of phygital marketing to retail commerce has increased in recent
years. Implicit in this excitement is the notion that physical experiences provide unique value …

Individual neurons in visual cortex provide the brain with unreliable estimates of visual
features. It is not known whether the single-neuron variability is correlated across large …

The scientific study of animal affect (emotion) is an area of growing interest. Whilst research
on mechanism and causation has predominated, the study of function is less advanced. This …

Patch foraging presents a sequential decision-making problem widely studied across
organisms—stay with a current option or leave it in search of a better alternative? Behavioral …