"Brainless does not necessarily mean neuron-less," Simon Sprecher, a professor of neurobiology at the University of Fribourg ...

A research team from The University of Texas at El Paso has made strides in understanding how memories are formed through the brain mechanisms of fruit flies, findings that could enhance our ...

April 30 (UPI) --Researchers have developed a computing device that is capable of learning by association, essentially merging storage and memory capacity. Researchers at Northwestern University and ...

HRL Laboratories, LLC, researchers have determined how non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) could increase performance of associative learning. The researchers found that when ...

Researchers report that associative learning impairments caused by obesity can be restored with liraglutide, an anti-obesity medication. After just one dose, researchers said study participants with ...

Can a pigeon match wits with artificial intelligence? Researchers tested pigeons' learning abilities and concluded the birds employ the same basic process, called associative learning, as the most ...

Cerebellum (Latin for "little brain" or "little cerebrum") in red. Cerebellar is the sister word to cerebral and means 'relating to or located in the cerebellum.' Source: Lifesciences ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 99, No. 19 (Sep. 17, 2002), pp. 12449-12454 (6 pages) We demonstrate that Caenorhabditis elegans is able to form ...

Obesity leads to altered energy metabolism and reduced insulin sensitivity of cells. The so-called 'anti-obesity drugs' are increasingly used to treat obesity and have caused tremendous interest, ...