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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

When we learn a new skill, our brain forms new connections between the neurons. The more we do the new skill, the stronger ...

-- How We Learn The exciting advancements in artificial intelligence of the last twenty years reveal just as much about our remarkable abilities as they do about the potential of machines. How We ...

When we look for something moving in the sky, our expectation would be very different if the object is a bird flying past or a baseball coming straight at us. UC Davis scientists in a new study looked ...

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 ...