Sure, playing video game is fun. But the ability of tiny brain organoids to pick up a skill could provide insight into how ...

In A Nutshell A timing gap of just 50 to 100 milliseconds determines whether a dopamine signal in the brain drives learning ...

New neurological research reveals that short bursts of cardio trigger "brain ripples" that stabilize information. Discover ...

When you get better at a skill—recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game—sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...

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 ...

Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in MRIs.

Put “Alien” on standby — because science may be inching a tiny step closer to real-life cryosleep. In a breakthrough that ...

Scientists with Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and Arizona State University recorded, for the first time in honey bees, the dynamics of neurotransmitters as the bees ...

A recent study has found that a specific single-celled organism has the capacity for Pavlovian associative learning without a brain or even a neuron.

Science-backed strategies The brain does not simply deteriorate with age. Research over the past decade has shifted how ...

On a simple math task - indicating which of two amounts is greater - kids with math learning disability get the right answer as often as their good-at-math peers, but behind the scenes, their brains ...