Have you ever found yourself mimicking another person's actions without thinking about it? That's a great example of what psychologists call observational learning, aka learning new skills, behaviors, ...

Social learning is well established across species. While recent neuroimaging studies show that dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC/preSMA) activation correlates with observational learning signals, ...

Animals can learn about danger by observing conspecifics, but whether and how they acquire behaviors through positive affective states of others is not understood. Here we show that by observing a ...