Humans possess a remarkable ability to make decisions within real-world environments that
are expansive, complex, and multidimensional. Human cognitive computational …

Adolescents are often portrayed as reckless risk-takers because of their immature brains.
Recent research has cast doubt on this portrayal, identifying the environment as a moderator …

The metacognitive sense of confidence can play a critical role in regulating decision making.
In particular, a lack of confidence can justify the explicit, potentially costly, instrumental …

In cognitive-behavioral conceptualizations of anxiety, exaggerated threat expectancies
underlie maladaptive anxiety. This view has led to successful treatments, notably exposure …

Managing multiple goals is essential to adaptation, yet we are only beginning to understand
computations by which we navigate the resource demands entailed in so doing. Here, we …

In value-based decision-making there is wide behavioural variability in how individuals
respond to uncertainty. Maladaptive responses to uncertainty have been linked to a …

Politics can seem home to the most calculating and yet least rational elements of humanity.
How might we systematically characterize this spectrum of political cognition? Here, we …

Distributional reinforcement learning (RL)–in which agents learn about all the possible long-
term consequences of their actions, and not just the expected value–is of great recent …

Abstract Machine learning research has achieved large performance gains on a wide range
of tasks by expanding the learning target from mean rewards to entire probability …

Rumination is a kind of repetitive negative thinking that involves prolonged sampling of
negative episodes from one's past, typically prompted by a present negative experience. We …