A receptor long known for guiding brain development before birth also shapes how adults learn, determining how strongly the ...

City University of New York researchers have identified the Smoothened receptor as a key regulator of how the adult brain locks in or updates learned behaviors. By controlling the timing of ...

How does the brain learn from mistakes? A new Duke study reveals a hidden circuit that helps control the learning process.

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

Brain study reveals memories stick when learning triggers a brief “energy emergency” in glucose-sensing neurons.

We tend to think of learning as something that happens in the mind, a mental exercise of reading, practicing, and remembering. But the truth is far more visceral. Every time you learn something new, ...

When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as babies grow through childhood into adulthood — is largely shaped by their ...

Teachers are increasingly encouraged to become amateur neuroscientists. For the last decade, educational materials have promoted neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity for adaptation, as the key to ...

The human brain is one of the most complex structures in nature, but the brain's origins stretch back hundreds of millions of years. A new study using AI deep-learning models has revealed more about ...