Cognitive control is required to organize thoughts and actions and is critical for the pursuit of
long-term goals. Childhood cognitive control relates to other domains of cognitive …

Reinforcement learning studies propose that decision-making is guided by a tradeoff
between computationally cheaper model-free (habitual) control and costly model-based …

This dissertation investigates the developmental trajectory of cognitive mechanisms
underlying category learning and decision-making, with a particular focus on the role of …

BACKGROUND: Family history (FH) of substance use (SU) is a significant risk factor for the
initiation of drug use and the progression to substance use disorder (SUD). A holistic …

By building a mental model of how the world works and using it to forecast the outcomes of
different actions, a learner can make flexible choices in changing environments. However …

Humans flexibly adjust their reliance on model-free (habitual) and model-based (goal-
directed) strategies according to cost‒benefit trade-offs, the ability of which is known as …