The cerebellum facilitates associative learning—wherein visual information is linked to motor actions—by strengthening ...

Playtime isn’t just all fun and games. Kids learn important developmental and social skills through playing with others and by themselves. Associative play is one of the six stages of play — a ...

Discusses the importance of number systems, tracing their origins from early human counting methods using fingers to modern numeral systems. It explains the decimal system, place value, and how ...

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 ...

The Octoberfest is a noble tradition in category theory: a low-key, friendly conference for researchers to share their work and thoughts. This year it’s on Saturday October 26th and Sunday October ...

This article is featured in the 2024 Green Key special issue. My decision to attend Dartmouth was strongly influenced by the College’s acclaimed curricular diversity. I was surprised, therefore, to ...

Just as the annual World Economic Forum jamboree kicked off at Davos in Switzerland, international charity Oxfam dropped its yearly bombshell on the state of global inequality. While the world’s five ...

Our brains are filled with lots of specialized structures that do things like process visual information, handle memories, or interpret language. One of the ways we try to understand what a brain is ...

Remember ‘How I Met Your Mother’? The less said about its horrible ending, the better, but it did introduce us to a lot of relatable concepts that help define our day-to-day lives. One of these is ...