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 ...

Identifying vulnerabilities is good for public safety, industry, and the scientists making these models.

Ritualization facilitates comprehension and retention. As the saying goes, "repetition is the mother of teaching". Ritualization in the form of repetition can be observed on two levels. It involves ...

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 ...

PBS NOVA recently aired an episode “Can Dogs Talk?” about whether dogs had the ability to learn our language. Using paw-sized push buttons placed on the floor (usually attached to a mat and labeled), ...

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, ...

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 ...

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

At the same time, AI chatbots can potentially provide young people with an opportunity to practice and build social-emotional ...

When making decisions and judgments, humans can fall into common "traps," known as cognitive biases. A cognitive bias is ...

Generative artificial intelligence systems often work in agreement, complimenting the user in its response. But human ...