A new study reveals how humans use flexible problem-solving strategies like hierarchical and counterfactual reasoning when ...

The human brain is very good at solving complicated problems. One reason for that is that humans can break problems apart ...

Scientists have discovered a specific group of brain cells that create memories of meals, encoding not just what food was ...

Researchers at the University of Southern California said brain cells they’ve identified that create memories of meals could ...

The simple act of looking and comparing may be the first step toward learning how to judge what we remember, a skill that is ...

Researchers modeled human decision-making strategies in a ball-in-maze task. They identified two main strategies: ...

As cannabis use among youth rises in Canada—and THC potency reaches record highs—emergency departments are seeing a surge in ...

Deep within the brain, the ventral tegmental area does more than signal when we re rewarded it forecasts exactly when we ll be rewarded. This discovery came from an elegant collaboration between ...