Do living beings learn and pass on to future generations some behaviors or predispositions more easily than others––and if so, how? So-called prepared learning is a question psychologists and other ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. According to a new study led by Harvard researchers in Nature Neuroscience, this so-called "learning machine" speaks in two different ...

The basal ganglia are a group of interconnected structures, located in the midbrain below the cerebral cortex, that play a crucial role in motor control, reward processing, and cognition. This region ...

Social singing and dance are often assumed to be hard-wired into the human condition; studies have supported the conclusion that these are common across cultures. But new research from an ...

The curious minds at ColdFusion reveal a robot hand that learned human behavior on its own. This matters because it demonstrates the potential for machines to adapt, interact, and learn like humans.

I started this blog a little over a year ago as a way of exploring the intersection of animal behavior research and human psychology. Research on animal behavior provides a lot of insights for ...

(Nanowerk News) To build AI systems that can collaborate effectively with humans, it helps to have a good model of human behavior to start with. But humans tend to behave suboptimally when making ...