Xiaowei Gu and Joshua Johansen at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered key circuitry in the rat brain ...

Neuroscientists at the Sainsbury Wellcome Center (SWC) at UCL have discovered that the brain uses a dual system for learning ...

Sheffield leads a lab at the UChicago Neuroscience Institute, where he and other researchers are working to better understand ...

Several areas of the brain, including regions that play a critical role in learning and memory and in the control of emotions ...

A landmark study published by scientists at the University of California San Diego is redefining science's understanding of the way learning takes place.

Learning new languages physically changes your brain and increases your cognitive abilities. But what really happens in the ...

Researchers at MIT have uncovered a powerful way the brain "unlearns" fear: through a dopamine-driven reward signal. By ...

More recently, the motor thalamus, located in the center of the brain, is an area that influences M1 during motor learning functions. Despite these advancements, researchers lacked evidence on how ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

Just like your body, your brain also needs regular exercise to stay in shape—especially when you are over 40, when the ...

Researchers said the findings are “particularly alarming” given the importance of adolescence when it comes to brain ...