(CNN) — The age of de-extinction may soon be a reality. Advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology are making resurrecting animals once lost to this world a tangible prospect.

When we visualize positive future outcomes, our brains release dopamine, a neurotransmitter linked to motivation and reward. From an evolutionary perspective, hope has played a vital role in human ...

“I view this as a really positive step. Our whole city worked tirelessly to get this consent decree done and there’s huge buy-in. There’s buy-in from elected officials. We’re all in on ...

Methods: We use a deep neural network-based reinforcement learning agent to study the learning dynamics that occur during spatial learning and context switching in a simulated ABA extinction and ...

Reinforcement learning, but not repeated stimulus exposure ... the mean ΔF/F was computed for a pre-stimulus epoch (1 second immediately preceding the stimulus, used as a negative control) and a ...

Mice were trained to discriminate two orthogonal directions of whisker stimulation. Reinforcement learning, but not repeated stimulus exposure, enhanced tuft selectivity for both directions equally, ...

Behaviorism is a theory of learning based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning, and conditioning ...

Instead, she has taken every opportunity to learn positive parenting techniques ... Explaining why she believes corporal punishment is ineffective, Lam said: “I still remember being beaten ...