New Duke research helps to answer a long-standing question in neuroscience: Where, exactly, does learning first take place in ...

Summary: A paradigm-shifting study has upended a decades-long neurological assumption that learning speed depends entirely on repetition and experience rather than the size of a reward. The research ...

A newly discovered developmental process reveals that the brain’s primary memory center starts out with an excess of tangled, ...

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, ...

Safety signal learning refers to the brain’s ability to recognize cues that predict the absence of threat. Safety learning ...

A young zebra finch learning to sing may not sound like much at first, just a babbling stream of chirps and whistles. But ...

Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute for Physiology, working in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, have achieved an important breakthrough in brain research. The ...

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Five foods your brain most wants in your 60s — and the five it could really do without. The evidence is compelling, the foods ...

When Amy Richter was a little girl, her father often traveled for work. He often came home bearing gifts of music and record albums. They bonded while poring over all that vinyl, she recalls, ...