Apps that train cognitive skills claim to help children learn, and some research backs that up. But there are concerns ...

When was the last time you sat down and tried to learn something? How did you approach it? Did you make flashcards for ...

‘I’m not gonna do this again’, we often say when faced with negative feedback, adverse effects, or disappointing outcomes. Thus, we attempt to learn from such negative experiences. This ...

In some cases, scientists use brain images and behavioral data to train machine learning models to predict an individual’s symptoms or illness based on brain function. But these models are only useful ...

The onset of psychosis can be predicted before it occurs, using a machine-learning tool which can classify MRI brain scans into those who are healthy and those at risk of a psychotic episode.

Dopamine signals in the brain were already understood to form reward prediction errors (RPE), where they signal to the animal whether an actual outcome is better or worse than expected.