Tag: Neuroscience

Research led by the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), and the Ikerbasque Foundation has revealed the mechanisms...

Not all habits are bad. Some are even necessary. It's a good thing, for example, that we can find our way home on "autopilot"...

Neuroscientists have discovered a new learning rule for pattern completion.Credit: Copyright IST Austria Recently, scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)...

This is the first to use patterns of resting-state brain rhythms to predict subsequent language learning rate. Credit: © jurek d. / Flickr Some adults learn...

Running barefoot is better than running with shoes for your working memory, according to a new study published by researchers at the University of...

In this microscopic image, brain cells from adult mice are shown expressing the protein Olig2 (shown in red). Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical...

Aggregated SOD1 protein can be seen as green dots in the cell fluid of a motor neuron in the spinal cord of an ALS...

Research strongly suggests that sleep, which constitutes about a third of our lives, is crucial for learning and forming long-term memories. But exactly how...

Safe levels of electrical stimulation can enhance your capacity to think more creatively, according to a new study by Georgetown researchers. Georgetown psychology professor Adam...

When people take the psychedelic drug LSD, they sometimes feel as though the boundary that separates them from the rest of the world has...

You walk into a room and suddenly your brain goes fuzzy with an overwhelming wave of familiarity -- although this is a totally new...