A landmark study suggests that this daily habit may reshape how your mind activates.

Imagine balancing a ruler vertically in the palm of your hand: you have to constantly pay attention to the angle of the ruler and make many small adjustments to make sure it doesn't fall over. It ...

A brief afternoon nap may reset key brain processes, helping the mind stay flexible, focused, and ready to learn.

How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much ...

Age can make memory feel like something that only moves in one direction. A name slips away. A route you know well turns ...

Waiting between rewards may help the brain learn faster. New research shows timing, not repetition, drives stronger learning updates.

A recent study found that a short afternoon nap may offer brain health benefits, such as clearing the mind and improving learning.

Age-related memory decline and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's are often thought of as irreversible. But the ...

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are emerging as transformative tools that enable direct communication between the human ...

Activities like learning a new language as a child or reading, writing, and playing board games later in life all had an impact on Alzheimer’s risk.

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, ...