Category learning is a fundamental cognitive process that enables humans and other species to organise complex sensory input into meaningful groups. This ability underpins decision‐making and adaptive ...

The ability to make the connection between an event and its consequences -- experts use the term associative learning -- is a crucial skill for adapting to the environment. It has a huge impact on our ...

A new study published in npj Science of Learning provides evidence that creative thinking may help students remember new information, such as foreign language vocabulary, by boosting their ability to ...

In most adults, learning and thinking plateau and then begin to decline after age 30 or 40. People start to perform worse in tests of cognitive abilities such as processing speed, the rate at which ...

Lucie Fontaine from INRIA Bordeaux is visiting the Machine Learning group. Her research focuses on predictive coding models ...