Learning Content

Monkey See, Monkey Do, Depending on Age, Experience and Efficiency

Andy Fell — June 07, 2017 - 12:14pm

Wild capuchin monkeys readily learn skills from each other – but that social learning is driven home by the payoff of learning a useful new skill. It’s the first demonstration of “payoff bias” learning in a wild animal, and could inform whether and how animals can adapt to rapidly changing conditions.

Manipulating memory with light

IET WebDev — October 09, 2014 - 10:30am

Just look into the light: not quite, but researchers at the 51�ԹϺ�� Davis Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology have used light to erase specific memories in mice, and proved a basic theory of how different parts of the brain work together to retrieve episodic memories. The work was published Oct. 9 in the journal Neuron.