When breaking down helps you move forward: Pursuing complex goals.

Liang Z., Klein-Flügge MC.

Achieving complex goals often requires breaking them down into simpler subgoals. In this issue of Neuron, Grossman et al. show that people structure their behavior hierarchically when pursuing goals, and they reveal candidate brain computations that support this planning.

DOI

10.1016/j.neuron.2026.03.014

Type

Journal article

Publication Date

2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

Volume

114

Pages

1171 - 1173

Total pages

2

Keywords

Humans, Goals, Brain

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