Recent studies show the importance of giving the brain healthy breaks — and it may look slightly different than you think. To process information effectively, the brain should function in a specific ...

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

Many people believe intelligence is a fixed trait you receive at birth and cannot change. Scientific discoveries paint a completely different picture of how the human brain actually works. Your ...

A randomized placebo controlled experiment shows that increasing noradrenaline during learning does not improve basic memory accuracy but increases the spread of associations across the hippocampal ...

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, ...

New research suggests Intelligence may emerge from how the brain’s networks work together rather than a single “intelligence ...

Study authors Hunter Schweiger (left) and Ash Robbins. Imagine balancing a ruler vertically in the palm of your hand: you have to constantly pay attention to the angle of the ruler and make many small ...

Scientists have grown a tiny brain-like organoid out of human stem cells, hooked it up to a computer, and demonstrated its potential as a kind of organic machine learning chip, showing it can quickly ...

Nowadays, no one seriously doubts that physical activity improves our physical health, along with our mental health and cognitive abilities. Physically active children perform better in school, ...