Learning is something everyone does daily—mastering new skills at work, remembering song lyrics, or following directions to new places. But behind these everyday tasks lies a complex biological ...

No body, no dopamine, no problem. Scientists have successfully coached lab-grown brain tissue to solve a classic robotics challenge, proving that the will to learn is hardwired into our neurons.

Waiting between rewards may help the brain learn faster. New research shows timing, not repetition, drives stronger learning updates.

Scientists at UC San Diego have uncovered processes that explain how our brains record new information, which could help aid advancements in brain and behavioral disorders and even artificial ...

The crackle of electricity inside your brain has long been too complex to decode. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend’s house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in green. Source: Paul Wicks/Wickemedia Commons In a groundbreaking discovery, neurocientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured brain images of active ...

Your brain is constantly evolving. Throughout your life, it reshapes, adjusts, and grows stronger in response to learning, new experiences, and your habits. This amazing shape-shifting ability is ...

At its core, we feel music—and now we are closer than ever to understanding why. One reason music has such an immediate impact on us is due to the way it is processed rapidly in the limbic system, the ...

We often stop noticing things we’ve become too accustomed to, as a side effect of our brains protecting us from sensory ...

Paper-based mental models vs linear typing; examples include the Eisenhower Matrix and habit loops, useful for study and work ...