Scholarly debates about the nature of human emotion traditionally pit biological and cultural
influences against one another. Although many existing theories acknowledge the role of …

The ability of the human brain to learn is exceptional. Yet, learning is typically quite specific
to the exact task used during training, a limiting factor for practical applications such as …

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date look at problem solving research and
practice over the last fifteen years. The first chapter describes differences in types of …

Perception is our key to the world. It plays at least three different roles in our lives. It justifies
beliefs and provides us with knowledge of our environment. It brings about conscious mental …

Simple perceptual decisions are ideally suited for studying the sensorimotor transformations
underlying flexible behavior [1, 2]. During perceptual detection, a noisy sensory signal is …

The ability to group items and events into functional categories is a fundamental
characteristic of sophisticated thought. It is subserved by plasticity in many neural systems …

How does the brain learn those visual features that are relevant for behavior? In this article,
we focus on two factors that guide plasticity of visual representations. First, reinforcers cause …

Acts of cognition can be described at different levels of analysis: what behavior should
characterize the act, what algorithms and representations underlie the behavior, and how …

Brains can gracefully weed out irrelevant stimuli to guide behavior. This feat is believed to
rely on a progressive selection of task-relevant stimuli across the cortical hierarchy, but the …

The uncanny valley hypothesis (Mori,) predicts differential experience of negative and
positive affect as a function of human likeness. Affective experience of humanlike robots and …