A peer-reviewed article in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory is challenging a foundational assumption about how animals and humans form associations between cues and rewards, Rather than relying ...

Operant conditioning is a theory that explains how behaviors are influenced by their consequences or results. It’s often used today to help people adopt new behaviors or change old habits. If you’ve ...

A single-celled organism shows Pavlovian learning, challenging our assumptions about the origins of cognition.

Eyeblink conditioning is a type of classical conditioning in which rabbits are trained to relate a conditioned stimulus (e.g., a light or tone) with an unconditioned stimulus (e.g., a puff of air to ...