You are sitting on the couch, chatting away, when your cat suddenly pricks up their ears and stares directly at you. It is a ...

Psychology suggests that people who always eat hot dogs on the Fourth of July are often doing more than keeping a tradition alive. Familiar holiday foods can strengthen feelings of belonging, ...

No, Your Dog Isn’t Paranoid: Extraordinary Senses at Work If you’ve ever questioned why dogs sometimes reject certain people ...

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Cats don’t process human speech the way humans assume. When you call your cat, what he hears is shaped more by tone, sound ...

In the lab, they’ve displayed astonishing prowess for getting through obstacles, including overcoming strong natural aversions to reach a goal. Yet, they can’t do much of anything on their own. It’s ...

Abstract: Pavlov conditioning is a typical associative memory, which involves associative learning between the gustatory and auditory cortex, known as Pavlov associative memory. Inspired by neural ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Single-celled organisms aren’t often associated with complex functioning, but a new study suggests that at least some protists exhibit what’s known ...

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 ...

The cerebellum facilitates associative learning—wherein visual information is linked to motor actions—by strengthening sustained visual responses. Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have ...