Some people seem to pick up new skills the way a sponge soaks up water, while others grind through repetition with only modest gains. The gap can look like talent or luck, but neuroscience is ...

Adults vary in how easily they learn new languages. While previous studies suggest this variability may be due to the ...

A detailed review of motor learning notes that While recent lesion and inactivation experiments have provided hints about how various brain areas contribute to learning, they converge on the idea that ...

A new University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study has put its own spin on Pavlov's dog experiment, shining a light on ...

Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order and randomness is the secret to learning, memory, and adaptability. When ...

Cursive is making a comeback. The looping handwriting style defined by flowing, connected letters had faded from curricula in places such as the United States, Finland and Switzerland as schools ...

A team of researchers in the Netherlands has proposed a new way of designing computer models of the brain—an approach that could also influence future artificial intelligence (AI) systems. In most ...

The following is a summary of a story that originally appeared on School of Medicine. How does the brain learn from mistakes? A new Duke study reveals a hidden circuit that helps control the learning ...

Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By tracking glutamate in real time, scientists can finally see how neurons process ...

We act fast on the basis of our predictions but learn most when we get it wrong, according to a new brain-scan study.

More than a century ago, Pavlov trained his dog to associate the sound of a bell with food. Ever since, scientists assumed the dog learned this through repetition: The more times the dog heard the ...