Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.
For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...
Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...
Even a short afternoon nap can help the brain recover and improve its ability to learn. In a study published on January 22, ...
A study in mice suggests infantile amnesia is not a failure of memory, but a developmentally useful process guided by brain ...
Some people seem to pick up new skills the way a sponge soaks up water, while others grind through repetition with only modest gains. The gap can look like talent or luck, but neuroscience is ...
Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf holds up a specialized chip for recording electrical activity in brain organoids. Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven its incredible ...
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, ...
People with spinal cord injuries often lose movement even though their brains still send the right signals. Researchers ...