Performance monitoring is a key cognitive function, allowing to detect mistakes and adapt
future behavior. Post-decisional neural signals have been identified that are sensitive to …

An organism's survival depends on its ability to learn about its environment and to make
adaptive decisions in the service of achieving the best possible outcomes in that …

A prominent source of polarised and entrenched beliefs is confirmation bias, where
evidence against one's position is selectively disregarded. This effect is most starkly evident …

Previous work has identified characteristic neural signatures of value-based decision-
making, including neural dynamics that closely resemble the ram** evidence …

Why people do or do not change their beliefs has been a long-standing puzzle. Sometimes
people hold onto false beliefs despite ample contradictory evidence; sometimes they …

When knowledge is scarce, it is adaptive to seek further information to resolve uncertainty
and obtain a more accurate worldview. Biases in such information-seeking behavior can …

Experts and expertise contribute to consequential organizational decisions from recruitment
to CEO succession, but these constructs are inconsistently operationalized and poorly …

Curious information-seeking is known to be a key driver for learning, but characterizing this
important psychological phenomenon remains a challenge. In this article, we argue that …

While often seeming to investigate rather different problems, research into value-based
decision making and cognitive control have historically offered parallel insights into how …

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 …