B O S T O N, Oct. 24 -- Many people think learning requires intense study and focus. But a study in today's journal Nature seems to show that's not true. "You don't have to pay attention to something ...

Although the idea that instrumental learning can occur subconsciously has been around for nearly a century, it had not been unequivocally demonstrated. Now, a new study published by Cell Press in the ...

We are constantly learning new things as we go about our lives and refining our sensory abilities. How and when these sensory modifications take place is the focus of intense study and debate. In new ...

Go to almost any classroom and, within minutes, you’re likely to hear a frazzled teacher say: “Let’s pay attention.” But researchers have long known that it’s not always necessary to pay attention to ...

From a teacher’s body language, inflection, and other context clues, students often infer subtle information far beyond the lesson plan. And it turns out artificial-intelligence systems can do the ...

Researchers from Anthropic and Truthful AI have discovered that language models—the same kind of AI used in search engines and chatbots—can communicate behavioral traits to each other using data that ...

I've recently taken up learning a language, mainly using the periods when I'm commuting to and from the office to use audio lessons, with some follow-up study later to look at writing and better ...

Tapes promising to "build your vocabulary while you sleep" have long been debunked by modern science, but the brain can absorb certain data unconsciously. Takeo Watanabe, Ph.D., director of the ...

Although the idea that instrumental learning can occur subconsciously has been around for nearly a century, it had not been unequivocally demonstrated. Now, a new study published by Cell Press in the ...