Clinical pain management remains a formidable challenge. An estimated 21% of the population in the US is living with chronic pain (Rikard et al., 2023). Currently used pain medications often have ...

Operant conditioning, sometimes called instrumental conditioning or Skinnerian conditioning, is a method of learning that uses rewards and punishment to modify behavior. Through operant conditioning, ...

Eunice Framm, senior keeper of barnyard animals at the Cincinnati Zoo, has taught pigs to bowl, goats to paint, and red pandas to receive vaccines. She, and all other keepers, do so through the zoo’s ...

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Operant conditioning is a theory that explains how behaviors are influenced by their consequences or results. It’s often used today to help people adopt new behaviors or change old habits. If you’ve ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that the brain cannot learn simultaneously through both classical conditioning and operant conditioning. In fact, the brain actively prevents the ...

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Runtime artificial intelligence application protection platform startup Operant AI Inc. today announced that it has raised $10 million in new funding to accelerate team and product expansion. Founded ...

The city agreed to reduce the share of affordable apartments set aside for people living near new developments, nine years after a lawsuit called the preferential policy discriminatory. By Mihir ...