A landmark study suggests that this daily habit may reshape how your mind activates.

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...

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 ...

When we learn a new skill, our brain forms new connections between the neurons. The more we do the new skill, the stronger ...

What actually happens inside the brain when learning works? Drawing on neuroscience, this breakdown of Stanislas Dehaene’s ...

Despite decades of research, the mechanisms behind fast flashes of insight that change how a person perceives their world, ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba and their collaborators have demonstrated that learning from both rewarding and aversive ...

A new study found a short siesta is enough to reorganize connections between nerve cells so that new information can be ...

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