Narrative fictions have surely become the single most widespread source of entertainment in
the world. In their free time, humans read novels and comics, watch movies and TV series …

Imaginary worlds are extremely successful. The most popular fictions produced in the last
few decades contain such a fictional world. They can be found in all fictional media, from …

Data reasoning is an essential component of scientific reasoning, as a component of
evidence evaluation. In this paper, we outline a model of scientific data reasoning that …

Cognitive control allows one to focus one's attention efficiently on relevant information while
filtering out irrelevant information. This ability provides a means of rapid and effective …

Attention control regulates efficient processing of goal‐relevant information by suppressing
interference from irrelevant competing inputs while also flexibly allocating attention across …

Imaginary worlds are present and often central in many of the most culturally successful
modern narrative fictions, be it in novels (eg, Harry Potter), movies (eg, Star Wars), video …

Exploration is critical for discovering how the world works. Exploration should be particularly
valuable for young children, who have little knowledge about the world. Theories of decision …

Two fundamental difficulties when learning novel categories are deciding (a) what
information is relevant and (b) when to use that information. Although previous theories have …

More and more research is showing how different environments can lead to greater or lower
creative skills. The purpose of this concept paper is to introduce a novel application of the …

In the second year of life, infants begin to rapidly acquire the lexicon of their native
language. A key learning mechanism underlying this acceleration is syntactic bootstrapping …