A sleep break can help the brain regenerate and improve its learning capacity. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by Freiburg University Hospital (Germany), Geneva University Hospitals ...

A recent study found that a short afternoon nap may offer brain health benefits, such as clearing the mind and improving ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

Despite decades of research, the mechanisms behind fast flashes of insight that change how a person perceives their world, ...

A team of researchers from the University of Rochester, Yale University, and Princeton University has made a big stride in neuroscience. They have shown a method to induce learning through the direct ...

A landmark study suggests that this daily habit may reshape how your mind activates.

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 ...

The human brain is one of the most complex structures in nature, but the brain's origins stretch back hundreds of millions of years. A new study using AI deep-learning models has revealed more about ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

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, ...

When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as babies grow through childhood into adulthood — is largely shaped by their ...