Hands of a child learning about patterns of size and color with colorful wooden blocks. Source: myboys/Shutterstock Part of what makes us human is the need for our brains to search for meaning. Good ...

Researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine ...

A hidden four-layer structure in the brain’s key memory hub has been revealed, reshaping how scientists understand learning ...

Princeton researchers found that the brain excels at learning because it reuses modular “cognitive blocks” across many tasks.

A sense of time is fundamental to how we understand, recall, and interact with the world. Tasks ranging from holding a conversation to driving a car require us to remember and perceive how long things ...

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

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience provides a detailed look at how the psychedelic drug psilocybin facilitates the ...

During the early thirties, the brain’s wiring pattern moves into what the researchers describe as the adult mode. This adult ...

Cambridge neuroscientists discover five distinct stages of brain development from birth to 90, revealing key turning points ...

The last turning point comes around age 83. The data for this final era is more limited, but the defining feature is a shift ...