Past studies have found that rewarding participants during a visual perceptual task leads to performance gains. However, new research suggests that these performance gains occur only if participants ...

Once rhesus monkeys learn to associate a picture with a reward, the reward by itself becomes enough to alter the activity in the monkeys' visual cortex. Once rhesus monkeys learn to associate a ...

In experiments on rats outfitted with tiny goggles, scientists say they have learned that the brain's initial vision processing center not only relays visual stimuli, but also can "learn" time ...

Scientists say that one need not have to pay attention to something in order to learn it. For now they have shown that the greed for reward can spark unconscious learning in humans. The new study by ...

A recent study found that the degree to which a person possesses autistic traits is linked to how their brain processes ...