Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means of ...

Operant boxes are an important tool for pre-clinical drug discovery and biological psychiatry, enabling the use of well-controlled psychological tests that have been adapted for rodents from their ...

To increase the throughput of training and testing multiple mice on an operant conditioning task while keeping handling to a minimum, researchers from the Francis Crick Institute in London have ...