As people age, structural brain changes influence their ability to adapt to the environment. Tatiana Wolfe and colleagues at ...

Scientists have proposed a new AI method in which systems of habitual and goal-directed behaviors learn to help each other. Through computer simulations that mimicked the exploration of a maze, the ...

Key points Evolutionary psychologists argue that many social emotions and behaviors may be evolved and adaptive. Both "prosocial" and "antisocial" behaviors can be understood to be evolved features of ...

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that if a set of behaviors—including social behaviors—meet certain criteria, it is reasonable to hypothesize that they evolved because they were, and may still be, ...