Countless YouTube videos feature pet birds singing and talking to their owners. Although it may seem like simple mimicry, ...

What can a honey bee tell us about human learning? According to researchers at Virginia Tech and Arizona State University, ...

When you get better at a skill-recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game-sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...

Researchers challenge the "efficiency" theory of the brain, showing that neurons become more coordinated and share more information as learning occurs.

Examining brain plasticity and its implications for development, aging, and brain injury recovery.

During the acquisition of correct rejection response, rankings of functional connection separated for cortical and subcortical regions, which is predictive of the peak timing of visual information ...

Teachers’ beliefs matter for student learning—but myths about the brain can be easily spread and hard to dislodge. The vast majority of active and future teachers—and even more of the general public ...

Halassa writes in the context of a broader research program he calls algorithmic psychiatry, which argues that mental illness ...

Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in ...

After training neurons to play Pong, the team is back, and this time the brain cells are slaying demons with super shotguns.

Learning sciences is an interdisciplinary field that studies how individuals acquire, process and retain knowledge, merging insights from cognitive neuroscience, psychology, education and technology.