Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified specific neural connections that are especially sensitive to learning about causality. The discovery, while seemingly intuitive, could have ...

When Real Learning Happens in the Brain, According to Neuroscience Repetition matters, but so does this.

Scientists have found that an important molecular change occurs in the brain when we learn and remember. Researchers found that learning stimulates our brain cells in a manner that causes a small ...

By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, JHU researchers shed light on the holy grail of neuroscience: the mechanics of how we learn ...

As learning happens, researchers noticed that the thalamus managed to activate M1 neurons to "encode the learned movement and to halt the activation of neurons not involved with the movement being ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that the brain cannot learn simultaneously through both classical conditioning and operant conditioning. In fact, the brain actively prevents the ...

Bassett’s research, he says, has great potential to bridge gaps between brain-imaging studies and scientists’ understanding of how learning happens.

A study suggests that even if an individual is asleep, their brain might not be. It is based on an exercise where researchers ...

Researchers studied what happens when certain enzymes are blocked in mice. Depending on whether the brain is healthy or diseased, the inhibition had opposite effects.

Implanting Memories in Birds Reveals How Learning Happens Researchers activated specific brain cells in zebra finches to teach them songs they’d ordinarily have to hear to learn.

“Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to adapt, change, and reorganize itself throughout life,” explains Dr. Amaya Manrique ...