Creativity has long been thought to involve associative processes in memory: connecting
concepts to form ideas, inventions, and artworks. However, associative thinking has been …

Adult semantic memory has been traditionally conceptualized as a relatively static memory
system that consists of knowledge about the world, concepts, and symbols. Considerable …

Search is a ubiquitous property of life. Although diverse domains have worked on search
problems largely in isolation, recent trends across disciplines indicate that the formal …

Network science provides a set of quantitative methods to investigate complex systems,
including human cognition. Although cognitive theories in different domains are strongly …

Creative cognition does not just involve cognitive processes in direct service of the main task
objective (eg, idea generation), but also metacognitive processes that monitor and regulate …

Creative ideas likely result from searching and combining semantic memory knowledge, yet
the mechanisms acting on memory to yield creative ideas remain unclear. Here, we …

Many decisions in the lives of animals and humans require a fine balance between the
exploration of different options and the exploitation of their rewards. Do you buy the …

Bayesian explanations have swept through cognitive science over the past two decades,
from intuitive physics and causal learning, to perception, motor control and language. Yet …

Stupid models are extremely useful. They are useful because humans are boundedly
rational and because language is imprecise. Social psychology, and the social and …

Modern decision neuroscience offers a powerful and broad account of human behaviour
using computational techniques that link psychological and neuroscientific approaches to …