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 ...

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 ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Scientists from UC San Diego have published a study in the journal Nature detailing how brain wiring changes while learning. The study's findings are supported by the National ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

Study examines brain changes during puberty to explain loss of learning ability. March 22, 2010— -- Any mom who's struggled to ski as her children whizzed by on the bunny hill, or any dad who's ...

Most children in elementary school begin learning about the body and how it works; however, research reveals that parents and teachers tend to leave out information about the brain. In fact, one study ...

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 ...