That’s when we learn to associate one thing with another thing, like the ringing of a bell with food, in the famous example of Pavlov’s dog. The more times we experience the stimulus and the reward, ...
A UCSF study led by Kerala scientist Vijay Namboothiri challenges Pavlov’s theory that repetition drives learning.
More than a century ago, Pavlov trained his dog to associate the sound of a bell with food. Ever since, scientists have ...
New research challenges the assumption that brains learn best through repetition, finding that associative learning relies more on how much time passes between rewards.