While the research does not point to a direct, causal link, it hints that activities like reading, writing and playing games ...

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala-the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making-is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...

When we learn a new motor skill—whether mastering a piano passage or refining balance while walking—the brain must reorganize ...

UF launches a new study abroad program that takes students to Antarctica for immersive, hands-on learning in science and ...

This important study describes long-range serial dependence of performance on a visual texture discrimination training task that manipulated conditions to induce differing degrees of location transfer ...

A new study in expert birders suggests that becoming an expert in a given field could help slow down cognitive decline.

Artificial intelligence-enhanced classrooms are prompting educators and campus leaders to rethink what learning spaces are ...

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

Ellen Galinsky is president of the research nonprofit Families and Work Institute in Palisades, N.Y., served as co-lead of the AASA Summit, and is the author of The Breakthrough Years: A New ...

Study finds SuperAgers in their 80s and 90s produce twice as many young neurons as healthy adults and 2.5 times more than ...

A study of 26,000 older adults finds that moderate cannabis use is associated with larger brain volumes and better memory, attention, and processing speed.