Are You Smarter Than a Teenager? Maybe Not When It Comes to Reinforcement Learning

Are You Smarter Than a Teenager? Maybe Not When It Comes to Reinforcement Learning

Adolescence is a time of tumultuous behavior that may result, in part, from brain circuitry that enhances reward seeking. In this issue of Neuron, Davidow et al. (2016) present a convincing argument that adolescent brain functionality can be adaptive in certain contexts, particularly probabilistic learning environments.

The BLUPs Are Not “Best” When It Comes To Bootstrapping

In the setting of mixed models, some researchers may construct a semiparametric bootstrap by sampling from the best linear unbiased predictor residuals. This paper demonstrates both mathematically and by simulation that such a bootstrap will consistently underestimate the variation in the data in 3nite samples. c © 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

Nematodes Are Smarter than You Think

absence of food will move in the same assay without 197–204. main features of the neural circuit controlling thermo-92, 846–849. play antagonistic roles in thermotaxis: AIY activity favors migration to high temperatures and AIZ activity favors low temperatures (Mori and Ohshima, 1995). The paper by Gomez et al. (2001) in this issue of Neuron reports a role for a C. elegans neuronal Ca 2ϩ than Y...

When it comes to new technologies, are you fulfilling your professional mandate?

Are Men More Likely than Women To Commit Scientific Misconduct? Maybe, Maybe Not

In their study published in January 2013 in mBio, Fang et al. reviewed records from the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and found more cases of scientific misconduct committed by men than women, particularly by faculty (F. C. Fang, J. W. Bennett, and A. Casadevall, mBio 4:1-3, 2013). Powerful social norms shape the way men and women behave, and implicit gender schemas can lead to different e...