A scientific team supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) unveiled the first complete map of the neural connections of the common fruit fly brain. The map provides a wiring diagram, known ...

Psychologists use the term behavior all the time and more than one current textbook defines psychology as the science of behavior. Yet there is enormous and ongoing confusion regarding what, exactly, ...

Spread the loveThe rise of social media has coincided with a troubling increase in mental health issues among adolescents. Recent insights from neuroscience reveal that the developing teenage brain, ...

He generally emphasized the behavior of the animal as a whole and focused experimentally on how it was shaped by “the function of the operant” (i.e., by consequences, especially reinforcement and ...