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

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

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

Most children in elementary school begin learning about the body and how it works; however, research reveals that parents and teachers tend to leave out information about the brain. In fact, one study ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. That’s a key idea ...

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 ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells—much less a brain—can behave ...

Neurons that fire together sometimes wire together. PASIEKA/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Every day, people are constantly learning and forming new memories. When you pick up a new hobby, try ...

To build real capability, Singapore must redesign learning around how the brain does it best Read more at The Business Times.

In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...