Survival depends on the selection of behaviors adaptive for the current environment. For
example, a mouse should run from a rapidly looming hawk but should freeze if the hawk is …

The ventral striatum (VS), like its cortical afferents, is closely associated with processing of
rewards, but the relative contributions of striatal and cortical reward systems remains unclear. …

When we evaluate an option, how is the neural representation of its value linked to information
that identifies it, such as its position in space? We hypothesized that value information …

Active maintenance of rules, like other executive functions, is often thought to be the domain
of a discrete executive system. An alternative view is that rule maintenance is a broadly …

In many cognitive tasks, lapses (spontaneous errors) are tacitly dismissed as the result of
nuisance processes like sensorimotor noise, fatigue, or disengagement. However, some …

Knowing whether core reward regions carry information about the positions of relevant
objects is crucial for adjudicating between choice models. One limitation of previous studies, …

Flexible decision-making, a defining feature of human cognition, is typically thought of as a
canonical pFC function. Recent work suggests that the striatum may participate as well; …

We are often faced with the need to abandon no‐longer beneficial rules and adopt new
ones. This process, known as cognitive set reconfiguration, is a hallmark of executive control. …

We make decisions by comparing values, but how is value represented in the brain? Many
models assume, if only implicitly, that the representational geometry of value is linear. …

Survival requires both the ability to persistently pursue goals and the ability to determine
when it is time to stop, an adaptive balance of perseverance and disengagement. Neural …