In 1897 Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov proved that animals can be trained using associative learning. A new study finds ...
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Brainless single cells just showed a form of learning

Can a creature with one cell and no brain still learn from experience? A growing body of biology suggests that the answer is ...
A peer-reviewed article in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory is challenging a foundational assumption about how animals and ...
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 ...
Associative learning was always thought to be regulated by the cortex of the cerebellum, often referred to as the "little brain". However, new research from a collaboration between the Netherlands ...
HRL Laboratories, LLC, researchers have determined how non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) could increase performance of associative learning. The researchers found that when ...