ESA tries to change NASA's mind

Memory Reconsolidation: Time to Change Your Mind

A new study shows that temporal expectations about threats are a key part of fear memories and that changing this temporal expectation is enough to trigger the updating and reconsolidation of a previously learned fear.

Mind Change Efficient Learning

This paper studies efficient learning with respect to mind changes. Our starting point is the idea that a learner that is efficient with respect to mind changes minimizes mind changes not only globally in the entire learning problem, but also locally in subproblems after receiving some evidence. Formalizing this idea leads to the notion of uniform mind change optimality. We characterize the str...

Does God Change His Mind?

Invited commentary: be prepared to change your mind.

Frozen Pre-embryos and the Right to Change One’s Mind

Biological technology used for purposes of human reproduction has generated a number of issues involving contract law, genetic parenthood, and public policy. One such issue arises from disagreements about the fate of frozen embryos. This issue presents special challenges to the judicial process even though historically courts have had experience in applying reason to the most emotional of issue...