One of the most effective ways we learn is through third-party imitation, where we observe and then copy the actions and ...

When trying to fit in, it’s not uncommon for humans to watch other humans interacting to get an idea of how they themselves ...

Blue-throated macaws learn new behaviors by observing interactions of their conspecifics. When they observed how other ...

If you’ve ever cooked a complex meal with someone, you know the level of coordination required. Someone dices this, someone sautés that, as you dance around holding knives and hot pans. Meanwhile, you ...

The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey famously opens with an ancient apelike human ancestor suddenly realizing that he could use large bones as weapons. Others in his group who see him quickly adopt the ...

According to a new study led by Harvard researchers in Nature Neuroscience, this so-called "learning machine" speaks in two different codes—one for recently-acquired learned movements and another for ...