Our brains are filled with lots of specialized structures that do things like process visual information, handle memories, or interpret language. One of the ways we try to understand what a brain is ...

Learning is based on adaptive changes of neuronal synaptic transmission. Synaptic strength is increased by activity-dependent firing of pre- and postsynaptic neurons (Bliss and Collingridge, 1993) and ...

Four experiments provide evidence that (a) language frequency of the stimuli can influence the rate of learning of a verbal discrimination, (b) re-pairing of the 'correct' and 'incorrect' members of ...