Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks. Monkeys switching between visual categorization challenges revealed that ...

In real-world settings, learning is often characterised as intentional: learners are aware of the goal during the learning process, and the goal of learning is readily dissociable from the awareness ...

Category learning helps us process the influx of information we experience daily. A common category structure is “rule-plus-exceptions,” in which most items follow a general rule, but exceptions ...