Humans do not integrate new information objectively: outcomes carrying a positive affective
value and evidence confirming one's own prior belief are overweighed. Until recently …

Debates around fishes' ability to feel pain concern sentience: do reactions to tissue damage
indicate evaluative consciousness (conscious affect), or mere nociception? Thanks to …

The valence of new information influences learning rates in humans: good news tends to
receive more weight than bad news. We investigated this learning bias in four experiments …

The topic of belief has been neglected in the natural sciences for a long period of time.
Recent neuroscience research in non-human primates and humans, however, has shown …

Human behaviours are guided by how confident we feel in our abilities. When confidence
does not reflect objective performance, this can impact critical adaptive functions and impair …

Influential theories emphasize the importance of predictions in learning: we learn from
feedback to the extent that it is surprising, and thus conveys new information. Here, we …

Humans and other animals tend to repeat or alternate their previous choices, even when
judging sensory stimuli presented in a random sequence. It is unclear if and how sensory …

Integrative processing is traditionally believed to be dependent on consciousness. While
earlier studies within the last decade reported many types of integration under subliminal …

Central to human and animal cognition is the ability to learn from feedback in order to
optimize future rewards. Such a learning signal might be encoded and broadcasted by the …

The field of computational psychiatry advocates for the use of behavioral task-derived
computational measures to improve our understanding, diagnosis and treatment of …