Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — When it comes to learning new motor skills, like playing the piano or mastering a golf swing, conventional wisdom suggests that older adults might have a harder time than their ...

Briefly showing people a visual flicker that aligns with their individual brainwave cycle can boost their learning ability in a visual identification task, a study has suggested. Neuroscientists from ...

When education is framed primarily as optimizing neural circuitry, we risk losing sight of the full complexity of human ...

Aging may come with its fair share of physical changes, but your brain doesn’t stop evolving just because you’ve hit 40. In fact, learning a new skill in your 40s or later can do more than just pass ...

When the human mind drifts away from a specific task, it may actually improve the ability to absorb hidden patterns in the ...

Researchers have successfully altered human reward learning using non-invasive transcranial ultrasound stimulation directed at a deep brain structure linked to motivation.

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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, ...

The brain's ability to adapt and form new neural connections allows it to recover from injury and maintain cognitive function into old age. Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to adapt and ...