According to a new study led by Harvard researchers in Nature Neuroscience, this so-called "learning machine" speaks in two different codes—one for recently-acquired learned movements and another for ...

Never underestimate the mind of a crow. Members of a family of birds that includes ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays, crows have been known to bend wire into hooks to retrieve food; drop nuts in a road ...

Unusually among human cultures, the Northern Aché people of Paraguay do not practice communal singing or dancing or sing to their children. (Photo of Aché building a traditional fishing dam by Kim ...

One of the most effective ways we learn is through third-party imitation, where we observe and then copy the actions and ...