Understanding the biological basis of consciousness or subjective experience is one of the most exciting and challenging projects of this century. For many reasons, an evolutionary approach to this ...

Researchers at the University of Kiel, and at the University of Copenhagen have demonstrated that Caribbean box jellyfish (Tripedalia cystophora) can learn at a much more complex level than previously ...

During associative learning, animals learn to change their behavior in response to a particular stimulus that would otherwise have a neutral influence on behavior. For example, if an animal such as a ...

Analogies between occasion setting and Pavlovian conditioning / Ralph R. Miller and Philippe Oberling -- Conditional learning : an associative analysis / Charlotte Bonardi -- Mechanisms of ...

Planning and self control in animals do not require human-like mental capacities, according to a new study. Newly developed learning models, similar to models within artificial intelligence research, ...

Tiny, brainless jellyfish just did something that on the surface may seem impossible: the adorable creatures showed evidence of learning. Even with just 1,000 neurons active at a time and no central ...

Some long-accepted truths about the brain have a way of eventually being proven false. For instance, contrary to earlier beliefs, neurogenesis (the growth of new neurons) does occur in adult brains as ...