Making optimal decisions in the face of noise requires balancing short-term speed and
accuracy. But a theory of optimality should account for the fact that short-term speed can …

Humans, even as infants, use cognitive strategies, such as exploration and hypothesis
testing, to learn about causal interactions in the environment. In animal learning studies …

In this thesis I investigate how macaque monkeys make reward-guided decisions.
Specifically, I investigate behavioural, computational, and neural mechanisms for detecting …