Neuroscience shows traditional teaching is not enough. Instead, an experiential approach can return learning to its natural ...

Some people seem to pick up new skills the way a sponge soaks up water, while others grind through repetition with only ...

How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is ...

Human brains can turn a single messy experience into a lasting skill, while even the most advanced artificial intelligence still needs oceans of data and careful supervision to do something similar.

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 ...

A biologically grounded computational model built to mimic real neural circuits, not trained on animal data, learned a visual categorization task just as actual lab animals do, matching their accuracy ...

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The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

Genetics, audio processing and environment can all impact how our brains connect sounds to the symbols we use to read ...