Animals survive in changing and unpredictable environments by not merely responding to new circumstances, but also, like ...

A new study identifies the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) as a crucial brain region for inference-making, allowing animals to interpret hidden states in changing environments.

Making causal inferences about illness, compared to making causal inferences about mechanical breakdown and reading causally unconnected sentences, activates a semantic brain network implicated in the ...

Chimpanzees exhibit some very human-like behaviors: they use a huge array of tools, they "mourn" the deaths of group members, and they can even ride Segways. We’ve known for a while that chimps make ...