Older adults may be slower to learn actions and behaviors that benefit themselves, but new research shows they are just as capable as younger people of learning behaviors that benefit others.

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What can a honey bee tell us about human learning? According to researchers at Virginia Tech and Arizona State University, more than you might think. Their findings, published in Science Advances on ...

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...

In classrooms across the country, students are mastering their ABCs, solving equations, and diving into science. But one essential life skill–behavior–is not in the lesson plan. For too long, ...

Like an online retailer trying to woo a customer back by offering a 10% discount on the boots they’ve been eyeing, education researcher Angela Duckworth wanted to understand how to incentivize ...

Jorge Palop, PhD, and Stephanie Miller, PhD, of Gladstone Institutes review data collected from an open-source machine learning tool called VAME. The tool analyzed video footage of mice to provide new ...

B-SOiD is an open source, unsupervised algorithm that can discover and identify behaviors without user input. To Eric Yttri, assistant professor of biological sciences and Neuroscience Institute ...

By transforming movement into data, Timothy Dunn is reshaping how scientists can study behavior and the brain.