When we think of pigs, we inevitably think of happy livestock rooting around in the mud on a farm. But if you’ve ever taken a ...

Information pervades the universe, yet means nothing. Meaning emerged when matter organized into systems that could ...

A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience provides neural evidence regarding how environmental cues can bias human ...

A new study published in PLOS Biology suggests that a specific cocktail of dietary supplements may help alleviate behavioral ...

A tiger walks the same worn groove along the edge of its exhibit, like a broken record. A parrot methodically plucks out its own feathers until bare skin shows through. To a casual visitor, these can ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Midlands Humane Society is expanding its humane education efforts with a new program designed specifically for kids. The Shelter Sidekicks program gives young participants the chance to volunteer ...

A context-driven memory model simulates a wide range of characteristics of waking and sleeping hippocampal replay, providing a new account of how and why replay occurs.

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

Certain canines can learn using cues from people’s gaze, gestures, attention and voices, researchers find Whether it is a piece of food or a four-letter expletive, words can be learned by young ...