Humans learn language from their elders. And the same is true of honey bees. Biologists who study bees have known that forager bees can find food in the wild and tell others in the hive where it is.

The main idea behind this model is that many behaviors we do are what we call learned behaviors. However, when we say that behaviors are learned, we don’t mean that you purposely taught your child to ...

Do living beings learn and pass on to future generations some behaviors or predispositions more easily than others––and if so, how? So-called prepared learning is a question psychologists and other ...

The concept of "genius" often conjures images of groundbreaking scientific discoveries or masterful artistic creations. While intelligence quotients (IQs) provide a numerical measure, true genius is ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. According to a new study led by Harvard researchers in Nature Neuroscience, this so-called "learning machine" speaks in two different ...

Social learning plays an important role in a honey bee’s ability to “waggle dance,” report researchers, who observed that honey bees not exposed to the dances of older, more experienced nestmates ...

Philosophers and psychologists often debate about whether our beliefs, emotions, desires, values, etc., are innate or whether they are learned. But does this type of debate make sense? Paul Griffiths, ...

Your children learn from watching you. The most effective way to parent is to become who you want your child to become. We may think parenting is an innate or natural ability because nature dictates ...