When rats come to a decision point, they sometimes pause and look back and forth as if
deliberating over the choice; at other times, they proceed as if they have already made their …

Successful behavior requires actively acquiring and representing information about the
environment and people, and manipulating and using those acquired representations …

More than 50 years of research have led to the general agreement that the hippocampus
contributes to memory, but there has been a major schism among theories of hippocampal …

Current interpretations of hippocampal memory function are blind to the fact that viewing
behaviors are pervasive and complicate the relationships among perception, behavior …

A critical aspect of inferential reasoning is the ability to form relationships between items or
events that were not experienced together. This review considers different perspectives on …

Individuals value the opportunity to make choices and exert control over their environment.
This perceived sense of agency has been shown to have broad influences on cognition …

Memory neuroscientists often measure neural activity during task trials designed to recruit
specific memory processes. Behavior is championed as crucial for deciphering brain …

Eye movements serve to accumulate information from the visual world, contributing to the
formation of coherent memory representations that support cognition and behavior. The …

The hippocampus supports memory encoding and retrieval, which may occur at distinct
phases of the theta cycle. These processes dynamically interact over rapid timescales …

Balancing habitual and deliberate forms of choice entails a comparison of their respective
merits—the former being faster but inflexible, and the latter slower but more versatile. Here …