Life can be tricky. We have so many decisions to make. It's a good thing we have an orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus to help us. These areas of the brain work together to help us sort through ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

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 ...

The team pinpointed the exact moment mice learned a new skill by observing the activity of individual neurons, confirming earlier work that suggested animals are fast learners that purposely test the ...

Learning is something everyone does daily—mastering new skills at work, remembering song lyrics, or following directions to new places. But behind these everyday tasks lies a complex biological ...

Memories and learning processes are based on changes in the brain's neuronal connections and, as a result, in signal transmission between neurons. For the first time, DZNE researchers have observed an ...

Cognitive training can help improve student engagement and performance, while building a foundation for robust brain health in the future.

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the brain developed during ...

It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, ...

In the vast expanse of the internet, social media, and now AI, I am often lost in a sea of ‘almost valuable’ information. This was particularly true when applying neuroscience practically as a parent, ...

Aswathy Ammothumkandy receives funding from American Epilepsy Society, and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Michael A. Bonaguidi receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, ...