Scientists once thought that planning required a primate brain. Experiments with birds are now proving that assumption wrong.

Avian species have become important model organisms in behavioral neuroscience due to their capacity for complex cognitive functions supported by ...

An innovative and scalable proximity labelling method profiled proteins present in the Caenorhabditis elegans brain during learning, identifying known regulators as well as novel biological pathways.

The acquisition and expression of Pavlovian conditioned responding are shown to be lawfully related to objectively specifiable temporal properties of the events the animal is learning about.

Animal groups show how simple actions create shared intelligence, shaping technology, health research, and crowd safety.

Some “gifted” dogs can learn more words than typical canines—new research on border collies may have the answer as to why.

Play is important for animals in captivity, both as an indicator of their emotional states and as a contributor to their long ...

Humpback whales aren’t just recovering in numbers. Learning to hunt together may help them survive a warming, unpredictable ocean.