One recent study linked a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline to lifelong learning and intellectually ...

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 ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf holds up a specialized chip for recording electrical activity in brain organoids. Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven its incredible ...

The brain’s primitive “fear center” may be much more than that, as new research on the amygdala suggests it plays a crucial role in learning, emotion, and decision-making. Researchers from Dartmouth ...

Halassa writes in the context of a broader research program he calls algorithmic psychiatry, which argues that mental illness ...

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

Researchers have long thought that rewards like food or money encourage learning in the brain by causing the release of the 'feel-good' hormone dopamine, known to reinforce storage of new information.

Evidence from the past 20 years indicates that the use of computers in classrooms has led to declines in students' academic ...

Scientists have grown a tiny brain-like organoid out of human stem cells, hooked it up to a computer, and demonstrated its potential as a kind of organic machine learning chip, showing it can quickly ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago found that “SuperAgers” generate twice as many new ...