A new study from the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics reveals a surprising insight into the operation of ...

No body, no dopamine, no problem. Scientists have successfully coached lab-grown brain tissue to solve a classic robotics challenge, proving that the will to learn is hardwired into our neurons.

A Harvard lecturer explains how to communicate your ideas so they are persuasive and unforgettable. The human brain is engineered to ignore most of what it sees and hears, according to the ...

How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much ...

A few blobs of lab-grown brain tissue have demonstrated a striking proof of concept: living neural circuits can be nudged toward solving a classic control problem through carefully structured feedback ...

A new ‘pop-up’ device developed by Professor John Rogers lets scientists map and manipulate activity in human neural ...

Researchers from Virginia Tech and Arizona State University recently revealed findings that tie two brain chemicals in bees to learning ability.

While it is fun to get toys that look like your favorite science fiction props, it is less fun when the electronics in them don’t measure up to the physical design. [Steve Gibbs] took a ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz have trained lab-grown brain organoids to solve a goal-directed task, ...

It’s quite the understatement to say that at this point in time we don’t quite understand how even the tiniest brain works exactly. Much of this is due to the sheer complexity and ...

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have discovered a path between the brain and the immune system that could potentially lead to new ways to ease heart attacks. They showed that ...

One type of cognitive training appears to reduce the risk of dementia 20 years later. Even a modest amount of mental exercise appears to reduce the risk of dementia for decades. NPR's John Hamilton ...