Humans and most other animals are known to be strongly driven by expected rewards or adverse consequences. The process of ...
A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may ...
A hidden four-layer structure in the brain’s key memory hub has been revealed, reshaping how scientists understand learning ...
Researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine ...
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 ...
The team pinpointed the exact moment mice learned a new skill by observing the activity of individual neurons, confirming earlier work that suggested animals are fast learners that purposely test the ...
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, ...