It may feel like the body keeps the score, but the brain is running the show, mispredicting danger long after the threat is ...

Elevated levels of a highly abundant chemical messenger in the brain are linked to a heightened sensitivity to making ...

The future, particularly cognition about the future, has been very much a back-burner issue in psychology for more than a century. The canonical human being, Homo psychologicus, is a prisoner of the ...

Every day we make thousands of tiny predictions — when the bus will arrive, who is knocking on the door, whether the dropped glass will break. Now, in one of the first studies of its kind, researchers ...

Researchers have identified brain cells that are dedicated to measuring disappointment when rewards fall short.