Learning is often thought to require a brain. But learning is a broad concept that does not necessarily depend on neurons. If ...

Filling every spare moment with a podcast, message or social-media scroll may deny the brain a useful window for ...

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Researchers have developed a learning mechanism that uses the natural variability of neural activity—often dismissed as ...

Mice that received vagus nerve stimulation after training remembered a learned movement better several days later.

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 ...

Scientists have grown a tiny brain-like organoid out of human stem cells, hooked it up to a computer, and demonstrated its potential as a kind of organic machine learning chip, showing it can quickly ...

New research reveals a fascinating brain mechanism involving the extracellular matrix that explains why individuals experience rapid skill acquisition followed by frustrating learning plateaus, ...

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