In 1897 Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov proved that animals can be trained using associative learning. A new study finds ...
Our brains are filled with lots of specialized structures that do things like process visual information, handle memories, or interpret language. One of the ways we try to understand what a brain is ...
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Brainless single cells just showed a form of learning
Can a creature with one cell and no brain still learn from experience? A growing body of biology suggests that the answer is ...
Some long-accepted truths about the brain have a way of eventually being proven false. For instance, contrary to earlier beliefs, neurogenesis (the growth of new neurons) does occur in adult brains as ...
Bread–butter. Bird–fly. Hot–cold. Sky–blue. These are just a few of the countless deep-seated associations we’ve all acquired in our prior experience. The basis of such associative learning is so ...
A recent study published in Nature Neuroscience suggests that the brain learns to associate a specific signal with a reward ...
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