B. Hayden

Distance decay 2.0 - a global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities.

This paper synthesizes global taxonomic and functional distance decay patterns across 149 datasets, finding taxonomic decay is stronger than functional decay, with mid-latitude datasets showing the fastest taxonomic spatial decay.

Macaques preferentially attend to intermediately surprising information

The paper shows rhesus monkeys preferentially attend to events of moderate surprisingness over more or less surprising events without external rewards.

Signatures of processing complexity during global cognitive states in ventromedial prefrontal cortex

The paper examines neural activity during inter-trial intervals in macaques, finding increased mnemonic discriminability and processing complexity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

Divergent strategies for learning in males and females

The paper finds that female and male mice use different strategies to learn value-based decisions in a two-armed bandit task, with females learning faster and using a more constrained approach.

Monkeys are Curious about Counterfactual Outcomes

This study shows that macaques sacrifice juice rewards to gain information about counterfactual outcomes, with willingness-to-pay scaling with information entropy, indicating human-like curiosity.