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

The ability to change initial decisions in the face of new or potentially conflicting information
is fundamental to adaptive behavior. From perceptual tasks to multiple-choice tests …

When striking a balance between commitment to a goal and flexibility in the face of better
options, people often demonstrate strong goal perseveration. Here, using functional MRI (n …

Human decision-making shows systematic simplifications and deviations from the tenets of
rationality ('heuristics') that may lead to suboptimal decisional outcomes ('cognitive biases') …

In recent years, the field of neuroscience has gone through rapid experimental advances
and a significant increase in the use of quantitative and computational methods. This growth …

The generation of new ideas and scientific hypotheses is often the result of extensive
literature and database searches, but, with the growing wealth of public and private …

Current theories of deliberative decision making suggest that deliberative decisions arise
from imagined simulations that require interactions between the prefrontal cortex and …

We propose a new conceptual framework (computational validity) for translation across
species and populations based on the computational similarity between the information …

Decision-making involves multiple cognitive processes requiring different aspects of
information about the situation at hand. The rodent medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has …

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 …