Elevated levels of a highly abundant chemical messenger in the brain are linked to a heightened sensitivity to making ...

The human brain actively keeps "learning" in balance by holding on to what matters and letting go of what does not.

Becoming a father is great for a man’s brain health — starting when he first learns that a new child is expected, and then on ...

In our age of information overload, remembering things can be a daunting task. But as a memory researcher and college professor, I’ve found some hope in that challenge. In January 2021, like millions ...

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Talia Milgrom-Elcott nurtures belonging & advances STEM. When Dr. Melina Uncapher looks at the brain, she sees an organ constantly ...

Researchers have demonstrated that brain cells learn faster and carry out complex networking more effectively than machine learning by comparing how both a Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI) ...

Learning a musical instrument later in life may help keep the brain younger for longer. In a four-year study, older adults ...

Information processing is a core element of cognitive processes in the brain. Rooted in the idea postulated by John von Neumann that the stochasticity of neural operations might essentially be a ...

It might soon be "game over" for the video game controller. Yale researchers have developed a new kind of brain-computer ...