Researchers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Salonga National Park are working over years to habituate wild bonobos ...

A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology examines the possible effects of two properties of receiver playing fields documented in studies of animal psychology—habituation and neural ...

Habituation is the most basic form of learning. Learning is defined as a change in behavior that results from an experience. In habituation, a response to a stimulus weakens when the stimulus is ...

Animals, including cats, birds, and humans, instinctively adapt their responses to external stimuli based on their surrounding environment or previously learned information. For instance, a dog ...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), and at Harvard Medical School have used mathematical modeling to show how individual cells appear capable of learning, a behavior once deemed ...

In Cameroon’s Campo Ma’an National Park, western lowland gorillas were once a rare sight. If they heard a human voice, they ...

Legend has it that the ancient Greek wrestler Milo of Croton trained by carrying a newborn calf on his shoulders every day until it grew into an adult bull. This training enabled Milo to become one of ...

Habituation to repeatedly presented stimuli is a prerequisite to adapting to the environment and is, often, reduced in patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which may account for social ...

Starting a new exercise regime initiates a highly dynamic period for skeletal muscle. The first unaccustomed bout of strenuous activity can cause muscle ultrastructural damage and declines in ...

A new paper examines the possible effects of two properties of receiver playing fields documented in studies of animal psychology -- habituation and neural adaptation -- on the efficacy of mate choice ...