A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience brings together two schools of thought on the function of the neurotransmitter dopamine: one saying that dopamine provides a learning signal ...

Operant conditioning is a theory that explains how behaviors are influenced by their consequences or results. It’s often used today to help people adopt new behaviors or change old habits. If you’ve ...

Psychology is the study of human behavior. It’s also a research-oriented field. For us to learn more about how humans behave, psychologists have to perform various research, and the studies of the ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that the brain cannot learn simultaneously through both classical conditioning and operant conditioning. In fact, the brain actively prevents the ...

Our past experience is one of the primary sources of information when faced with a choice. We ask ourselves: "what will happen if I do this?"Accurately predicting the consequences of our actions is ...

You know by now that when you gently squeeze your horse’s side with your leg, they will move away, or that you may be able to entice a horse to walk towards a suspicious trailer ramp with the aid of a ...