People's perceptions and their interpretation of the world are known to often be influenced by their expectations and past experiences. One well-established example of this is serial dependence, a ...

Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new Yale study finds evidence that they might. When completing a visual perception task, in which participants had to ...

Like snowflakes, no two people are exactly the same. You’re probably used to the idea that people differ substantially in personality and in cognitive abilities – skills like problem-solving or ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Temporal accumulation of evidence is crucial for making accurate judgments based on noisy or ambiguous sensory input. The integration process ...

Encoding individual behavioral traits into a low-dimensional latent representation enables the accurate prediction of decision-making patterns across distinct task conditions.

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A quick nap with deep N2 sleep could unlock hidden insights, as scientists find brainwave patterns during sleep best predict those breakthrough moments. Study: N2 sleep promotes the occurrence of ‘aha ...

Spring has finally arrived, and with it, warmer temperatures. Many people say that their thinking slows down as the temperature rises in a summer heatwave, but is this really true? According to a ...