Treatment of anxiety disorders by exposure therapy is often followed by unwanted renewal of the seemingly extinguished fear. A better understanding of the cognitive and neural mechanisms governing ...

In naturalistic settings, the stream of experiences is often not independent and identically distributed (iid). In particular, humans are constantly confronted with experiences that are ...

Life can be tricky. We have so many decisions to make. It's a good thing we have an orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus to help us. These areas of the brain work together to help us sort through ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. You would be hard-pressed to say that one or the other is ...

How animals may modify their behavior depending on their context has been modeled mathematically by two RIKEN neuroscientists. Their simple but biologically plausible model could shed light on mental ...

What causes forgetting? This is perhaps the most central question to memory research and motivated even the earliest memory research, yet remains hotly debated today. One of the oldest theories of ...

A teacher's capability to improve students' scientific understanding is influenced by the school and district in which they work, the community in which the school is located, and the larger ...