Deficits in attention and information processing mechanisms have been suggested to play a critical role in disorders such as schizophrenia (Braff and Geyer 1990; Kietzman et al. 1985; Nuechterlein and ...

Long before they enter a classroom, people learn to identify commonplace objects like a “dog” and a “chair” just by encountering them in everyday life, with no intent to learn about what they are. A ...

Can you learn about something just from having seen it – without sitting down to study? The idea is called ‘latent learning’ and a new psychological experiment has suggested that it might be possible ...

Reinforcement learning is one of the exciting branches of artificial intelligence. It plays an important role in game-playing AI systems, modern robots, chip-design systems, and other applications.