A new study identifies the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) as a crucial brain region for inference-making, allowing animals to interpret hidden states in changing environments.

Animals survive in changing and unpredictable environments by not merely responding to new circumstances, but also, like ...

Founded in 1888 by Edward C. Hegeler, The Monist is one of the world’s oldest and most important journals in philosophy. It helped to professionalize philosophy as an academic discipline in the United ...

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Political Analysis, Vol. 26, No. 1 (January 2018), pp. 54-71 (18 pages) Measuring the causal impact of state behavior on outcomes is one of the biggest methodological challenges in the field of ...

Engineers are making it easier for researchers from a broad range of backgrounds to understand how different species are evolutionarily related, and support the transformative biological and medical ...

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