Human activities are changing our environment. Along with climate change and a
widespread loss of biodiversity, plastic pollution now plays a predominant role in altering …

Obtaining information from the world is important for survival. The brain, therefore, has
special mechanisms to extract as much information as possible from sensory stimuli. Hence …

Nervous systems of vertebrates and invertebrates show a common modular theme in the
flow of information for cost-benefit decisions. Sensory inputs are incentivized by integrating …

Episodic memory enables animals to map contexts and environmental features in space and
time but is underused in artificial intelligence (AI). Here we show how simple associative …

The nervous systems of all animals are subject to changes in temperature. Some
mammalian and avian central nervous systems are under homeostatic regulation and are …

Current conceptions of human cognition in understanding the origins of human art
emphasize that cognition is mainly embodied, that is, crucially integrated in the perceptual …

The fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have vastly expanded in the
past decade, with a variety of modern applications, ranging from computer vision to …