City University of New York researchers have identified the Smoothened receptor as a key regulator of how the adult brain ...

How does the brain learn from mistakes? A new Duke study reveals a hidden circuit that helps control the learning process.

A receptor long known for guiding brain development before birth also shapes how adults learn, determining how strongly the ...

Brain study reveals memories stick when learning triggers a brief “energy emergency” in glucose-sensing neurons.

We tend to think of learning as something that happens in the mind, a mental exercise of reading, practicing, and remembering. But the truth is far more visceral. Every time you learn something new, ...

University of Tennessee, Knoxville neuroscientist Keerthi Krishnan studies how genes, especially MECP2, shape brain ...

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If you have a child in school right now, you may have heard them talk about needing a “brain break” while doing homework or ...

These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

What do we know about the brain and learning? We know that the brain constructs all learning and all behavior is brain-based. We know that academic competence cannot be bifurcated from emotional ...

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, ...