Conditioning that once worked with Pavlov's dog does also work with an artificially induced change in nerve cell activity. Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have successfully implemented ...

For a primer on consciousness and the brain, click here. When students first learn about Pavlov's dogs—dogs that learned to salivate to the sound of a bell (the "conditioned stimulus") when the bell ...

Trace eyeblink conditioning is a popular technique designed to explore the neural mechanisms that underpin motor learning in both human and animal subjects. This technique involves the classical ...