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

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, ...

New research is revealing how the brain processes language, showing that multiple regions work together to handle meaning, sounds, and word boundaries. Studies demonstrate that language learning taps ...

New research is challenging long-held beliefs about how humans acquire and process language. Instead of building sentences from complex hierarchical structures, scientists suggest our brains may work ...

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

Neuronal sequences in the medial prefrontal cortex of the brain encode critical information associated with a procedural rule. These sequences can be explored and leveraged as novel biomarkers for ...

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 ...

The brain is a complex organ. Not only is it made up of multiple parts, all of which have important roles to play in processing information, but the way that the brain learns can also change based on ...

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the artificial intelligence revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help answer that question, Johns ...

Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in green. Source: Paul Wicks/Wickemedia Commons In a groundbreaking discovery, neurocientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured brain images of active ...

Our minds evolved to minimise unpredictability. But if we learn to live with doubt, a world of opportunities opens up ...