Sometimes, even a single experience can be highly impactful, prompting humans and other animals to change their behavior or ...

Reading hasn't been around for long, evolutionary speaking. Instead, the brain recruits systems evolved for other purposes ...

Brain derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, is a neuropeptide involved in neuron growth, survival and synaptic plasticity, ...

New study shows that as neural networks learn, they adopt patterns of activity similar to real-life neuron firing patterns in ...

A new study by neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory shows how the brain encodes information ...

Understanding how the brain learns and applies rules is the key to unraveling the neural basis of flexible behavior. A new study from the University of Toyama, Japan, reveals that our ability to ...

This episode is part of “The Young American Scientists,” an editorially independent project that was produced with financial support from Regeneron. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science ...

Far too many students enter math class expecting to fail. For them, math isn’t just a subject–it’s a source of anxiety that chips away at their confidence and makes them question their abilities. A ...

Learning is often thought to require a brain. But learning is a broad concept that does not necessarily depend on neurons. If ...

Vision is one of the most fundamental senses, shaping how we perceive, navigate and interact with the world around us. Yet for more than 12 million Americans living with visual impairments, even small ...

Scientists have long held that learning and memory formation are made possible by the strengthening and weakening of connections among brain cells, but until recently scientists didn't know how the ...

Neuronal sequences in the medial prefrontal cortex of the brain encode critical information associated with a procedural rule. These sequences can be explored and leveraged as novel biomarkers for ...