How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is ...

"When we study for a test do we remember the required facts simply because we choose to do so?" he asks. "I suggest the possibility that the underlying mechanisms of incidental learning and ...

Brain researchers have identified a bridge between the thalamus and the cortex as the key area that is modified during motor learning functions. They found that such learning does much more than ...

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the artificial intelligence revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help answer that question, Johns ...

Scientists discovered that two brain chemicals in honey bees can predict how fast they will learn, offering new insight into ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

"When we do a task that leads to a success (for example, finding a target letter in a sequence of distracting letters)," he writes, "we learn not only to better detect the target letter but we also ...

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 ...