To compare findings across species, neuroscience relies on cross-species homologies,
particularly in terms of brain areas. For cingulate cortex, a structure implicated in behavioural …

Adaptive reward-related decision making requires accurate prospective consideration of the
specific outcome of each option and its current desirability. These mental simulations are …

In Consciousness We Trust is a synthesis of Hakwan Lau's 20-year research programme
exploring the neuroscience of consciousness. Discussing studies from his own laboratory …

We propose a new conceptual framework (computational validity) for translation across
species and populations based on the computational similarity between the information …

The brain mechanism for controlling continuous behavior in dynamic contexts must mediate
action selection and learning across many timescales, responding differentially to the level …

What gives rise to the human sense of confidence? Here we tested the Bayesian hypothesis
that confidence is based on a probability distribution represented in neural population …

Efficient foraging is essential to survival and depends on frontal cortex in mammals.
Because of its role in psychiatric disorders, frontal cortex and its contributions to reward …

Adaptive reward-related decision making often requires accurate and detailed
representation of potential available rewards. Environmental reward-predictive stimuli can …

The ACC is implicated in effort exertion and choices based on effort cost, but it is still unclear
how it mediates this cost-benefit evaluation. Here, male rats were trained to exert effort for a …

Biological organisms display remarkably flexible behaviours. This is an area of active
investigation, in particular in the fields of artificial intelligence, computational and cognitive …