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 ...

In a recent essay by Sam Altman, titled “The Intelligence Age,” he paints a picture for the future of AI. He states that with AI, “fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of ...

Vision happens when patterns of light entering the eye are converted into reliable patterns of brain activity. This reliability allows the brain to recognize the same object each time it is seen. Our ...

These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

A receptor long known for guiding brain development before birth also shapes how adults learn, determining how strongly the ...

The social side of work is in short supply these days. Post-pandemic, many organizations have turned to some form of a hybrid approach: employees splitting their time between remote work and commuting ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

A signaling pathway best known for shaping the brain before birth also helps govern how adults learn, adapt, and persist in ...

A team of researchers in the Netherlands has proposed a new way of designing computer models of the brain—an approach that ...

The brain’s ideal state may be a fragile balance called “criticality,” where it’s most ready to learn and adapt. Losing that balance could be the root of diseases like Alzheimer’s, and regaining it ...