Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Duke University ...

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

Researchers are testing a new approach to repair early memory loss by protecting brain connections affected in Alzheimer’s ...

For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of pleasure, motivation, and reinforcement. In popular understanding, higher ...

The UCLA Brain Research Institute hosted the annual Southern California Learning and Memory Symposium on March 3. Participants and attendees gathered in the Neuroscience Research Building for a day of ...

These distinct tests enabled the scientists to observe specific hippocampal activity during learning and then memory replay and consolidation in sleep. Because of the way our pupils change in response ...

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, ...

Learning is not just about spending long hours with books; it is about learning smarter and following how the brain naturally ...

A new research study published in Health Promotion Perspectives has found that exercise and meditation make a powerful combination for learning and memory in young adults. Physical exercise and ...