For years, students have heard the same advice from teachers and parents alike: put down the laptop and take notes by hand.

This interactive session explores the science of learning—what educators, advisors and students should know about the brain, learning, neuroplasticity and the power of practice, feedback and ...

Safety signal learning refers to the brain’s ability to recognize cues that predict the absence of threat. Safety learning ...

Even a short afternoon nap can help the brain recover and improve its ability to learn. In a study published on January 22, 2026, in the journal NeuroImage, researchers at the Medical ...

New research findings: Studies of over 80,000 adults found multilingual speakers were less likely to show accelerated biological aging compared to monolinguals. Why it matters: Switching between ...

WASHINGTON – A new finding from researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center shows that the learning process of associating cues with rewards can be altered by increased or decreased activity ...

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making—is simply the brain's primitive “fear ...

Challenging your mind, through games and learning new skills, may help reduce your risk of dementia, according to the ...

A Boston University-led research team has discovered a dopamine signal in the brain that helps determine whether you are moving toward or away from a goal, potentially shedding new light on how the ...