For many who have struggled to learn a new language or instrument, it's a familiar pattern: They make rapid progress at first ...

Summary: Researchers identified a dynamic physical mechanism in the adult brain that regulates learning plateaus and skill ...

Learning a new language does more than expand your vocabulary. It challenges your brain, builds cognitive reserve, and may ...

Many teenagers study a second language at school, often wondering whether they will ever use it. New research suggests there ...

The team pinpointed the exact moment mice learned a new skill by observing the activity of individual neurons, confirming earlier work that suggested animals are fast learners that purposely test the ...

Some people seem to pick up new skills the way a sponge soaks up water, while others grind through repetition with only modest gains. The gap can look like talent or luck, but neuroscience is ...

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, ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animals’ brains began to ...