A growing body of peer-reviewed research is building the case that single-celled organisms, creatures with no brain, no ...

In 1897 Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov proved that animals can be trained using associative learning. A new study finds ...

A giant, single-celled organism with no brain, neurons, or nervous system has demonstrated an advanced form of learning ...

Up until recently, habituation -- a simple form of learning -- was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals. But a ...

Habituation is the most basic form of learning. Learning is defined as a change in behavior that results from an experience. In habituation, a response to a stimulus weakens when the stimulus is ...

A dog learns to sit on command, a person hears and eventually tunes out the hum of a washing machine while reading … The capacity to learn and adapt is central to evolution and, indeed, survival.

AN important problem in studying the physiological basis of memory is to determine its location. Protozoa offer the obvious advantage of confining the site(s) to a volume no more than 1 mm 3. If ...