The ability to link new pieces of information together and the capacity to solve entirely new problems reinforce each other ...

Can a creature with one cell and no brain still learn from experience? A growing body of biology suggests that the answer is no longer easy to dismiss. In experiments on the pond-dwelling protist ...

A giant, single-celled organism with no brain, neurons, or nervous system has demonstrated an advanced form of learning previously thought impossible for a solitary cell. The organism is Stentor ...

Much more difficult is learning to connect different types of stimuli or events, and predicting that one is linked to another. Such associative learning was most famously demonstrated when Ivan Pavlov ...

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 ...

We are grateful to R. Takakura, and K. Takashima for their help of imaging data analyses, to M. Motoyama and M.S. Kobayashi for technical assistance, and to S. Sasaki, H. Koyama, and other members of ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Everyday behaviors, such as braking at a red light or opening an app upon seeing a notification, are shaped by associative learning, wherein the brain links sensory cues to motor ...

In the old understanding, which goes back to Aristotle, associations are activity-conducting connections between ideas, nodes or neurons. It’s an ontological mistake; an association is a readily ...

ABSTRACT: Traumatic events, such as sexual/physical assaults and motor vehicle accidents, frequently involve individuals who are under the influence of alcohol. Research suggests that peri-traumatic ...

The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human. In 1943, while the world’s ...

The Recentive decision exemplifies the Federal Circuit’s skepticism toward claims that dress up longstanding business problems in machine-learning garb, while the USPTO’s examples confirm that ...