Our brains handle vast amounts of complicated information. So, how exactly does the mind make sense of all the many things it has to deal with? While there are a few different ideas, information ...

Human decision-making depends on the flexible processing of complex information, but how the brain may adapt processing to momentary task demands has remained unclear. Researchers have now outlined ...

The conscious experience of our surroundings involves several forms of attention, from bottom-up automatic attention to a more focused top-down attention. These forms of attention all rely on neural ...

One of the deepest mysteries about cognition is how human thought differs from that of humanity’s close primate relatives. This question targets the core of human nature itself, simultaneously ...