The traditional model of memory proposes that different types of long term memory are processed in separate brain modules.

A study reveals random exploration outperforms focused analysis—shedding scientific light on non-ordinary ways of knowing.

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, ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

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

The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

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

Discover the evolution of economics from ancient times to modern theories that influence global markets, including Adam Smith and Keynesian approaches.

Players had begun to wonder whether the robot enemies were using AI to learn new tactics based on player behaviour, but Embark has shot the theory down.

To his credit, Kasy is a realist here. He doesn’t presume that any of these proposals will be easy to implement. Or that it will happen overnight, or even in the near future. The troubling question at ...

A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching pursuit of companionship. After being abandoned by his mother and rejected by the rest of his troop, his zookeepers at Ichikawa ...