In the third part of this series on how horses learn, we look into operant conditioning, using rewards and consequences for ...

The previously neutral bell became a conditioned stimulus that evoked a conditioned response (salivation), illustrating what we now call classical conditioning. A dog salivating in anticipation of a ...

Depending on the environmental cues, placebo effects seem to involve primarily expectation and, at other times, classical conditioning ... placebo responses. For example, with the selective ...

In classical conditioning, dogs create associations between two stimuli. For example, if a dog hears a bell just before being fed, they will start to salivate at the sound of the bell alone ...

It’s a perfect example of canine kindness and intelligence ... about cause and effect is through classical conditioning, ...

The orgasm experienced then provides the critical reinforcing event for the conditioning of the fantasy ... that they are not mentally ill in the classical sense but that they have an addiction ...

The bright yellow exterior with its vintage-style “ANTIQUES & CAFE” sign stands like a beacon for bargain hunters, history ...

D-Wave is a company that makes quantum annealers, specialized hardware that is most effective when applied to a class of ...

Enter the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. This is a group with a history of investigating serious jazz-classical crossover, as in its 1992 recording of Ron Collier’s orchestration of a suite based ...

By Joshua BaroneCorinna da Fonseca-WollheimSeth Colter WallsZachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review.

On March 15, the Boston Symphony Orchestra began their concert as any other: The oboe tuned the orchestra with a concert A, ...

This important study suggests that adolescent mice exhibit less accuracy than adult mice in a sound discrimination task when the sound frequencies are very similar. While the evidence supporting this ...