How does the brain learn from mistakes? A new Duke study reveals a hidden circuit that helps control the learning process.

Researchers have discovered that the Smoothened receptor, previously known for its role in brain development before birth, also regulates learning and behavioral flexibility in adults by controlling ...

These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

We tend to think of learning as something that happens in the mind, a mental exercise of reading, practicing, and remembering. But the truth is far more visceral. Every time you learn something new, ...

If you have a child in school right now, you may have heard them talk about needing a “brain break” while doing homework or ...

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 ...

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, ...