Surprise appears to help the brain loosen its grip on old expectations, allowing people to respond more accurately when ...

For many who have struggled to learn a new language or instrument, it's a familiar pattern: They make rapid progress at first ...

Summary: Researchers identified a dynamic physical mechanism in the adult brain that regulates learning plateaus and skill ...

Learning a new language does more than expand your vocabulary. It challenges your brain, builds cognitive reserve, and may ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf holds up a specialized chip for recording electrical activity in brain organoids. Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven its incredible ...

Scientists have grown a tiny brain-like organoid out of human stem cells, hooked it up to a computer, and demonstrated its potential as a kind of organic machine learning chip, showing it can quickly ...