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People often make sequences of decisions to reach a goal. In such situations, when decisions can be undone, people act faster and undo to correct errors. Undoing is driven by both retrospective and prospective uncertainty.

This series of experiments shows that context in memory is reconstructed rather than encoded. When recognition pertained to background scenes in the context reinstatement paradigm, objects acted as context irrespective of their role during encoding.

This study introduces MAPS, a framework for testing whether artificial neural network explanations capture the visual information used by humans and non-human primates during object recognition, linking AI interpretability to primate vision.

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Using a Snake-inspired working memory task, this study shows that people dynamically reprioritize memorized goals after distraction, demonstrating how working memory supports flexible planning in dynamic environments.

Density Map-Based Predictive Modeling (DMPM) quantifies spontaneous thought dynamics in valence–selfrelevance–time space to predict positive and negative affectivity across independent datasets, linking thought-dynamic signatures to salivary Creactive protein.

This study used latent growth models on UK cohort data to examine age-specific sensitivity between internalising symptoms and adverse social experiences. Sensitivity to bullying varied across ages 10 to 15, associations with social exclusion were stable from 16 to 21 years.

This study asks whether cognition unfolds rhythmically. Across two dense-sampling datasets, autoregressive modelling reveals reliable theta-band rhythms in behavior, but no consistent difficulty-related frequency shift.

Comparing brain representations before and after drama viewing with functional MRI and representational similarity analysis, this study shows that antagonistic interpersonal relationships shape neural maps of social relationships.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 27 studies assessed mental health both overall and across specific psychological domains, showing that associations with swiping-based dating app use vary substantially across outcome types.

This study applies natural language processing to 25,000 pre-college essays to detect two beliefs about belonging: simple optimism predicts worse first-year outcomes, while a process-oriented view predicts success—offering a scalable diagnostic for student support.

This study suggests that self-focused information may dampen emotional and neural responses to partner feedback, that emotion regulation may moderate this effect, and that neural responses during the task relate to daily supportive behavior.

Collective mental time travel pathways link past and future representations following consequential events like the 2023 Turkish elections. These links can be sociopolitically sensitive and are related to future political agency

Using a group decision-making task, this study shows that teams perform worse when newcomers hold critical information. Newcomers in this position showed weaker linguistic coordination and more task conflict, and prestige-based status did not offset these effects.

How individual perceptual maps shape behavior remains unclear. The current study compares task-naïve and task-based auditory maps in humans and mice, finding congruent perceptual structures across conditions and species, guiding perceptual learning.

Across England, Hong Kong and Mainland China (N = 849) parental distress is linked to child internalizing problems. Yet protective factors differ across contexts, as this link is attenuated by positive control in China, but by mindmindedness in England.

In Human-LLMs interaction, LLMs offer sycophantic responses regardless of human communication style. This Perspective proposes that interacting with LLMs may be detrimental to the norms of human-human interaction.

Brain responses to voice differ at 9 months in infants born to mothers with severe mental illness. Socioeconomic status also relates to how infants process sounds, suggesting multiple early factors associated with language development.

This study examines how automated failure feedback influences performance in a technology-based learning task. Trial level analyses show that effectiveness depends on feedback design and learners’ situational emotional and cognitive characteristics.

This series of studies shows that conscious detection and recognition of a word can be triggered retrospectively, even after its visual features are masked. This suggests that conscious access may be largely independent of early sensory processing.