This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On a nippy Monday night at the Zebulon in Frogtown, a man wearing a Jason Voorhees T-shirt steps onto a ...

Lectures on Tap series brings professors and other experts into Boston restaurants and bars for talks that mix big ideas with food and drink. Lectures on Tap, an event series, brings ticketed lectures ...

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, ...

Classical conditioning, also called Pavlovian conditioning or respondent conditioning, is learning through association. This behavioral learning method was first studied in the late 19th century by ...

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 ...

Harvard University Press (HUP) will reissue five titles from its Charles Eliot Norton Lectures series, including Jorge Luis Borges’s This Craft of Verse and Umberto Eco’s Six Walks in the Fictional ...

Air conditioning can feel heaven-sent on hot summer days. It keeps temperatures comfortable and controls humidity, making indoor environments tolerable even on the most brutally warm days. But some ...

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 ...

What is operant conditioning and how does it apply to how we train our horses? We have already looked at how the first two levels of learning theory apply to our horses in this exclusive series on how ...

Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity AI startup Operant AI is entering the Indian market, introducing its Runtime AI Application Defense Platform to safeguard AI systems against emerging threats. The ...

Replacing or buying a new central air conditioning system can be a huge expense, so you’ll want to get it right. To peg down systems that are likely to last, we measure and track the reliability of ...