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

Classifying students as visual, auditory, or tactile learners can actually do more harm than good. Research shows what truly ...

Neuroscientists at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) at UCL have discovered that the brain uses a dual system for learning through trial and error.

A new, first-of-its-kind facility is now open in Howard County that focuses on improving the way brains function.

Dopamine signals in the brain were already understood to ... Previous research discovered the dopamine neurons needed for learning reside in three areas of the midbrain: the ventral tegmental ...

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

moment’ while learning something, it almost doubles your ... The stronger the epiphany, the greater the change in those areas. “During these moments of insight, the brain reorganizes how it sees the ...

Children with excess belly fat were found to have more volume in several areas of the brain than those without (Alamy/PA) ...

Located deep in the mammalian brain, the hippocampus is a brain region primarily associated with memory and learning. Patients with hippocampal lesions are unable to learn new information or form new ...

That 'aha' moment when you come back to a puzzle and immediately figure it out? Something fascinating is going on in your brain. A new study using functional magnetic resonance imaging shows that ...