"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 ...

Associative learning was always thought to be regulated by the cortex of the cerebellum, often referred to as the "little brain". However, new research from a collaboration between the Netherlands ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...