A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

As people age, structural brain changes influence their ability to adapt to the environment. Tatiana Wolfe and colleagues at the University of Arkansas characterized changes in the brain across two ...

This chapter provides an orientation to the evidence around applied behavior analysis (ABA) and its application with autistic individuals. The chapter begins with a brief definition of what ABA is and ...

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that if a set of behaviors—including social behaviors—meet certain criteria, it is reasonable to hypothesize that they evolved because they were, and may still be, ...

Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means of ...