Sometimes we plan ahead, thinking about future consequences of our actions. Other times, we select actions based only on their…
Learning from reinforcement is a classic way to study how brain areas contribute to adaptive behaviour. The most frontal parts…
In this article, I discuss the implications of new work from Hanneke Den Ouden’s lab. The authors subdivided Parkinson’s disease…
Patients with Parkinson’s disease lack the brain chemical dopamine. Dopamine is thought to signal upcoming rewards, and this might explain…
When you recall an item from memory, a prompt usually brings associated parts of that item into mind. Could this…
When we hold several things in short-term memory, we can shift our attention internally between different features in memory. For…
Dopamine drugs are used to treat Parkinson’s disease, and alter a wide range of brain functions. One role of dopamine…
Is it possible to account for our patterns of short-term remembering and forgetting, and at the same time, make predictions…
Our eye movements are controlled by a relatively simple circuit in the brainstem. Remarkably, it seems to operate with less…