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 ...

The elucidation of the classical conditioning paradigm has been attributed to Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936), who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine for his work on reflexes and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Classical conditioning is one of those ...

Trace eyeblink conditioning is a popular technique designed to explore the neural mechanisms that underpin motor learning in ...