How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much ...

New research challenges the assumption that brains learn best through repetition, finding that associative learning relies more on how much time passes between rewards.

That’s when we learn to associate one thing with another thing, like the ringing of a bell with food, in the famous example of Pavlov’s dog. The more times we experience the stimulus and the reward, ...

Forget everything you knew about practice making perfect. New research shows your brain is actually wired to learn faster ...

More than a century ago, Pavlov trained his dog to associate the sound of a bell with food. Ever since, scientists assumed the dog learned this through repetition: The more times the dog heard the ...

Memories are thought to be stored in sparse groups of neurons called engrams. These are the cells that switch on during learning and can later switch on again during recall. In physiological aging and ...

Plans for a new external classroom at a South Tyneside school to “enhance outdoor learning provision” have been submitted to council development bosses.

This week, we caught up with Fanny Vicherat, Head Of International Programs - Editorial & Marketing Partnerships at Believe.

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when our capacity for language arose. According to new research, genes likely to ...

Another dog pressed “ouch,” and the human asked where her problem was, she pressed “paw” and in fact, the dog had a thorn in her paw. To the researcher, this sounded like a dialog between the dog and ...