(PeopleImages/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Research suggests you can keep your brain sharp into old age by learning languages ...

To understand why, the team looked at the MRI scans.

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 ...

Teachers are increasingly encouraged to become amateur neuroscientists. For the last decade, educational materials have promoted neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity for adaptation, as the key to ...

Due to the rapid rise and impact of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, ClaudeAI, and DeepSeek over the past several years, the National Academies’ Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous ...

Stretching your brain might be the better description. Do a crossword puzzle a day, and you may just get good at crosswords. Instead, research increasingly shows that a variety of habits and hobbies ...

We often experience forgetting as a frustration, or a glitch in the memory system. But new research shows it has real value.

Researchers have discovered how inferred emotions are learned. The study shows that the frontal part of the brain coordinates with the amygdala -- a brain region important for simple forms of ...