Want to change your behavior? How about your consumers' behavior? A new Georgetown study reveals how overlooked cues are the ...

Rewards are necessary for learning, but they may actually mask true knowledge, a new Johns Hopkins University study with rodents and ferrets finds. The findings, published today in Nature ...

It is ironic that the research reported in your story “Reading Scores Given ‘Bump’ By Student Incentives, Study Finds” (June 4, 2008) came from Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education ...

Adolescence is a time of increased risk taking, but do adolescents learn differently from reward and punishment, or from childhood to adoelscence? Source: Cotonbro studio/Pexels This post was written ...

The idea of reinforcement learning—or learning based on reward—has been around for so long it’s easy to forget we don’t really know how it works. If DeepMind’s new bombshell paper in Nature is any ...

Ewa Miendlarzewska a reçu des financements de Fonds National Suisse de la recherche scientifique. Reward has many interesting functions, but knowing how to use it in learning and boosting memory is ...

In a study in the Journal of Affective Disorders, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists Pearl Chiu and Brooks Casas investigate how brain signals involved in reward learning might help ...

If you love it when a musician strikes that unexpected but perfect chord, you are not alone. New research shows the musically unexpected activates the reward centre of our brains, and makes us learn ...