Umpires Are Bayesian Brains: Count Bias in Baseball Calls Reveals Rational Perception
A study of 451,172 Major League Baseball pitches shows that umpires' count-dependent strike zone shifts follow the mathematics of Bayesian ...
Tag: decision-making
Response Times Expose Hidden Brain Mechanisms Behind Learning and Mental Illness
By jointly modeling response times alongside choices, researchers disentangled working memory, cognitive control and reinforcement learning, and uncovered schizophrenia deficits ...
How Threat Rewires the Brain’s Decision Math in Approach-Avoidance Choices
A new computational study shows that humans adapt to threatening decision environments by reweighting reward and threat information and aligning ...
Famous Scarcity Study May Have Misread How Poverty Shapes Attention
A new re-analysis and replication study in Nature Communications argues that the famous 'Angry Blueberries' experiment did not demonstrate an ...
Selfish and Prosocial People Both Bend the Truth About Their Impact, but Selfish Distortions Spread Further
Nine experiments with nearly 8,800 adults show that both selfish and prosocial people systematically distort the ambiguous social consequences of ...
Brain electrodes reveal a tug-of-war between two orbitofrontal regions as we decide to take risks or play it safe
Intracranial recordings in six neurosurgical patients show that medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex send opposing decision signals that flicker between ...
When the World Gets Unpredictable, Our Brains Stop Planning So Hard
A Nature Communications study shows that as environmental randomness increases through unreliability, volatility, or reduced controllability, people reduce planning effort ...
Why Ignoring Uncertainty in Natural Hazard Forecasts Would Be Absurd, Scientists Warn
A multidisciplinary task force argues that natural hazard sciences must adopt a shared hierarchy of uncertainties and complete forecasts that ...
AI Agents Match Human Averages but Diverge in How They Respond to Rewards and Penalties
A controlled experiment comparing humans with two large language models under a sequential carbon credit incentive finds that identical aggregate ...
Mental Accounting Survives Its Biggest Test Yet Across 21 Countries
A landmark study of 5,589 participants in 21 countries confirms that mental accounting—the tendency to treat identical sums of money ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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