For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...

New research from UC Santa Barbara shows that mind-wandering — those moments where our attention drifts away from a task at ...

Kanazawa University, have captured real-time images showing how a key brain enzyme organizes itself to help memory formation.

Certain cognitive skills help improve memory naturally. Strengthening focus, logic, language, and emotional control can ...

Learning is not only empowering but fulfilling. It gives our lives meaning and can benefit us professionally. Learning is also perhaps the best antidote to boredom and depression. And the really good ...

The activity of Snhg11, a gene found in the 'dark matter' of the genome, is critical for the function and formation of neurons in the hippocampus, specifically in an area critical for learning and ...

Science reveals handwriting significantly improves how the brain learns and retains information. Using pen and paper slows ...

Artificial intelligence has learned to talk, draw and code, but it still struggles with something children master in ...

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, ...