According to a new study led by Harvard researchers in Nature Neuroscience, this so-called "learning machine" speaks in two different codes—one for recently-acquired learned movements and another for ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

Mule Deer crossing the road in front of a car in Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, in Denver. (Dr. Dave Kenny via SWNS) By Stephen Beech Animals in the wild are changing their behavior ...

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 ...

Animals in the wild are changing their behavior after watching humans, reveals new research. Up to two-thirds of species — including deer, raccoons and birds — are changing their behavioral patterns ...