Foraging decisions and neural dynamics

Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics

How do animals decide when to stay on vs. leave a patch during foraging?

August 2025 · Michael Bukwich, Malcolm G. Campbell, David Zoltowski, Lyle Kingsbury, Momchil S. Tomov, Joshua Stern, HyungGoo R. Kim, Jan Drugowitsch, Scott W. Linderman, Naoshige Uchida
Corticostriatal learning

Causal Inference Gates Corticostriatal Learning

How do causal inferences shape reward-based learning in the brain?

August 2021 · Hayley M. Dorfman *, Momchil S. Tomov *, Bernice Cheung, Dennis Clarke, Samuel J. Gershman *, Brent L. Hughes *
Neural computations of causal learning

Neural Computations Underlying Causal Structure Learning

How does the brain learn the abstract causal structure of the world in a way that supports generalization?

August 2018 · Momchil S. Tomov, Hayley M. Dorfman, Samuel J. Gershman