Most of the tasks that humans complete daily entail carefully coordinating movements and tracking progress made toward a ...

Study authors Hunter Schweiger (left) and Ash Robbins. Imagine balancing a ruler vertically in the palm of your hand: you have to constantly pay attention to the angle of the ruler and make many small ...

It is well documented that ADHD is associated with challenges in inhibitory control. However, the underlying cognitive mechanisms that give rise to these difficulties are not well established. Here, ...

Current theories of habitual behaviour assume that habits and goal-directed actions are controlled by two separate but interacting systems. However, it is not clear how these systems interact when ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz have trained lab-grown brain organoids to solve a goal-directed task, publishing their results in the journal Cell Reports. The work represents ...

Imagine balancing a ruler vertically in the palm of your hand: you have to constantly pay attention to the angle of the ruler and make many small adjustments to make sure it doesn't fall over. It ...