New research suggests that the body’s internal chemistry may quietly shape how well people learn, remember, and even unlearn ...

Branchlike structures called dendrites that extend from neurons appear to make their own computations independent of the cell ...

A new study published in PLoS Biology has found that learning a new motor skill sets off two different types of cellular ...

Learning something new and holding onto it long enough to use it can feel like a constant challenge, especially when distractions pull attention in every ...

In our age of information overload, remembering things can be a daunting task. But as a memory researcher and college professor, I’ve found some hope in that challenge. In January 2021, like millions ...

A new study suggests that learning and remembering speech relies more on how the brain processes sounds and sensations than on the areas that control mouth and face movements. The discovery could ...

One of artificial intelligence's most stubborn problems is enabling AI systems to accumulate new knowledge without losing ...

Making smart decisions is a product of intelligence; that’s why Jeff Bezos is a proponent of recognizing two-way doors. (Bezos also feels the the smartest people often change their minds, not because ...

Researchers at Google have developed a new AI paradigm aimed at solving one of the biggest limitations in today’s large language models: their inability to learn or update their knowledge after ...

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, ...