Determining how environments shape how people learn is central to understanding
individual differences in goal-directed behaviour. Studies of the effects of early-life adversity …

A central goal of computational psychiatry is to identify systematic relationships between
transdiagnostic dimensions of psychiatric symptomatology and the latent learning and …

Adolescent development is characterized by an improvement in multiple cognitive
processes. While performance on cognitive operations improves during this period, the …

Predictive coding models suggest that the brain constantly makes predictions about what
will happen next based on past experiences. Learning is triggered by surprising events, ie, a …

Social prejudices, based on race, ethnicity, gender, or other identities, pervade how we
perceive, think about, and act toward others. Research on the neural basis of prejudice …

Schemas are rich and complex knowledge structures about the typical unfolding of events in
a context; for example, a schema of a dinner at a restaurant. In this Perspective, we suggest …

Adolescence is characterized by increased risk-taking, which is often ascribed to
developmental changes in dopaminergic signaling. Popular models propose that these …

Reward-guided choice is fundamental for adaptive behaviour and depends on several
component processes supported by prefrontal cortex. Here, across three studies, we show …

The architecture of sleep undergoes distinct changes during childhood and early
adolescence. Slow wave sleep is involved in memory processing and may support active …

Adaptability is a distinguishing feature of the human species: We thrive as hunter-gatherers,
farmers, and urbanites. What properties of our brains make us highly adaptable? We review …