Although the idea that instrumental learning can occur subconsciously has been around for nearly a century, it had not been unequivocally demonstrated. Now, new research uses sophisticated perceptual ...

Although the idea that instrumental learning can occur subconsciously has been around for nearly a century, it had not been unequivocally demonstrated. Now, a new study published by Cell Press in the ...

New research shows that conscious and non-conscious thought processes can both alleviate and enhance the experience of pain When we say that we are “in pain”, we usually mean that an injured body part ...

Although the idea that instrumental learning can occur subconsciously has been around for nearly a century, it had not been unequivocally demonstrated. Now, a new study published by Cell Press in the ...

Psychologist Takeo Watanabe and his team at Boston University have uncovered the mechanism that primes the subconscious, enabling individuals to learn a task without actually realizing it. They also ...

Anthropic released one of its most unsettling findings I have seen so far: AI models can learn things they were never explicitly taught, even when trained on data that seems completely unrelated to ...

We are constantly learning new things as we go about our lives. In addition to learning new facts, procedures, and concepts, we are also refining our sensory abilities. How and when these sensory ...

B O S T O N, Oct. 24 -- Many people think learning requires intense study and focus. But a study in today's journal Nature seems to show that's not true. "You don't have to pay attention to something ...

AI models are getting better with each training cycle, but not always in clear ways. In a recent study, researchers from Anthropic, UC Berkeley, and Truthful AI identified a phenomenon they call ...

Go to almost any classroom and, within minutes, you’re likely to hear a frazzled teacher say: “Let’s pay attention.” But researchers have long known that it’s not always necessary to pay attention to ...