Artificial intelligence can already beat grandmasters at Go, draft legal briefs, and generate photorealistic images in ...

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the artificial intelligence revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help answer that question, Johns ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend’s house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These ...

We need a unified and accessible explanation of the main mental processes that define the human condition, ranging from perception through cognition and emotion to action, in both health and disease.

Scientists at UC San Diego have uncovered processes that explain how our brains record new information, which could help aid advancements in brain and behavioral disorders and even artificial ...

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Learning is going viral on TikTok, and while it's cool to be smart, we decided to ask the experts what's causing this sudden ...

New research shows that the brain uses built-in molecular timers to decide which memories last longer and which ones fade ...

How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is ...