Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Japanese baby monkey that stole hearts around the world has been learning to bond with other macaques in his zoo enclosure, ...

For more than a decade, neuroscientists had recordings from monkey brains learning to sort visual patterns. They had analyzed ...

NIH-funded scientists have detected direct evidence of individual brain cells signaling the formation of new memories. Neurons they call "changing cells" in the hippocampus, the brain's ...

Birds of a feather may flock together, but do birds that flock together develop distinct cultures? Two studies published today in Science find strong evidence that, at the very least, monkeys that ...

A working memory representation goes missing in monkey parietal cortex during categorization learning, but is still found in the prefrontal cortex. This finding comes from experiments probing another ...