A sleep break can help the brain regenerate and improve its learning capacity. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by Freiburg University Hospital (Germany), Geneva University Hospitals ...

A recent study found that a short afternoon nap may offer brain health benefits, such as clearing the mind and improving ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

A landmark study suggests that this daily habit may reshape how your mind activates.

Despite decades of research, the mechanisms behind fast flashes of insight that change how a person perceives their world, ...

When babies are born, their brains contain billions of neurons. But how those neurons interact — and what they can do as babies grow through childhood into adulthood — is largely shaped by their ...

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 ...

Despite decades of research, the mechanisms behind fast flashes of insight that change how a person perceives their world, ...

The human brain is one of the most complex structures in nature, but the brain's origins stretch back hundreds of millions of years. A new study using AI deep-learning models has revealed more about ...

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, ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...