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I’m a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life
We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats ...
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Honey bees rely on associative stimulus strength after training on an olfactory transitive inference task
Honey bee performance in operant vs. Pavlovian conditioning regimes for transitive inferences The present results align with findings from a prior study on transitive inferences in honey bees, which ...
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What Happens When Brain Learns Two Behaviors At Once?
A well-known example of learning is Ivan Pavlov's famous experiment, where a dog learns to associate the sound of a bell with food. This type of learning is called classical conditioning and involves ...
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Classical vs. Operant Conditioning: The Brain’s Memory Tug-of-War
A well-known example of learning is Ivan Pavlov’s famous experiment, where a dog learns to associate the sound of a bell with food. This type of learning is called classical conditioning and involves ...
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TAU Groundbreaking Discovery Illuminates the Brain’s ‘Memory Wars’
Classical conditioning, famously demonstrated by Pavlov’s dogs, involves forming passive associations between stimuli—like linking the sound of a bell with the anticipation of food.