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

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

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

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

Researchers have discovered that the Smoothened receptor, previously known for its role in brain development before birth, also regulates learning and behavioral flexibility in adults by controlling ...

Can AI learn by shrinking? A new study introduces a development-inspired continual learning framework for spiking neural ...

A signaling pathway best known for shaping the brain before birth also helps govern how adults learn, adapt, and persist in ...

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, ...

Neuroscientists have identified a novel form of neuroplasticity, behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP), that enables the brain to encode memories from a single experience. The mechanism, ...

If you have a child in school right now, you may have heard them talk about needing a “brain break” while doing homework or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Talia Milgrom-Elcott nurtures belonging & advances STEM. When Dr. Melina Uncapher looks at the brain, she sees an organ constantly ...