Operant conditioning is a theory that explains how behaviors are influenced by their consequences or results. It’s often used today to help people adopt new behaviors or change old habits. If you’ve ...

A new study brings together two schools of thought on the function of the neurotransmitter dopamine: one saying that dopamine provides a learning signal, the other saying that dopamine drives ...

Eyeblink conditioning is a type of classical conditioning in which rabbits are trained to relate a conditioned stimulus (e.g., a light or tone) with an unconditioned stimulus (e.g., a puff of air to ...