The ability to group items and events into functional categories is a fundamental
characteristic of sophisticated thought. It is subserved by plasticity in many neural systems …

Developmental disorders of language include developmental language disorder, dyslexia,
and motor-speech disorders such as articulation disorder and stuttering. These disorders …

Reinforcement learning describes motivated behavior in terms of two abstract signals. The
representation of discrepancies between expected and actual rewards/punishments …

It has long been known that memory is not a single process. Rather, there are different kinds
of memory that are supported by distinct neural systems. This idea stemmed from early …

Goal-directed and stimulus-driven factors determine attentional priority through a well
defined dorsal frontal-parietal and ventral temporal-parietal network of brain regions …

The uncanny valley hypothesis (Mori,) predicts differential experience of negative and
positive affect as a function of human likeness. Affective experience of humanlike robots and …

The current paper briefly outlines the historical development of the concept of habit learning
and discusses its relationship to the basal ganglia. Habit learning has been studied in many …

Neural correlates of visual categories have been previously identified in the prefrontal cortex
(PFC). However, whether individual neurons can represent multiple categories is unknown …

Individuals with heavy prenatal alcohol exposure can experience significant deficits in
cognitive and psychosocial functioning and alterations in brain structure that persist into …

Cognitive abnormalities are a feature of Parkinson′ s disease (PD). Unlike motor symptoms
that are clearly improved by dopaminergic therapy, the effect of dopamine replacement on …