Can a creature with one cell and no brain still learn from experience? A growing body of biology suggests that the answer is ...

A giant, single-celled organism with no brain, neurons, or nervous system has demonstrated an advanced form of learning ...

Neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports learning and the encoding of ...

The barrel cortex, a specialised region within the rodent somatosensory cortex, plays a central role in the processing of tactile information derived from the whiskers. Recent studies have elucidated ...

Detecting learning-dependent changes in neural networks to understand how memory is made in the prefrontal region of the brain Okazaki, Japan – Scientists have long speculated about the physical ...

A randomized placebo controlled experiment shows that increasing noradrenaline during learning does not improve basic memory ...

Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations — it’s a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few ...

Previous similar devices could only operate at cryogenic temperatures. Researchers developed a transistor that simultaneously processes and stores information like the human brain. The transistor goes ...

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 ...