Every time you master a new recipe, remember a phone number, or finally figure out how to fold a fitted sheet, your brain is learning. But new research shows that the brain learns in a more complex ...

Have you ever wondered how your brain creates thoughts or why something randomly popped into your head? It may seem like magic – but actually the brain is like a supercomputer inside your head that ...

Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in green. Source: Paul Wicks/Wickemedia Commons In a groundbreaking discovery, neurocientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured brain images of active ...

Extensive practice can rewire the brain so a learned skill runs more automatically, making some forms of true multitasking ...

The following is a summary of a story that originally appeared on School of Medicine. How does the brain learn from mistakes? A new Duke study reveals a hidden circuit that helps control the learning ...

Cursive is making a comeback. The looping handwriting style defined by flowing, connected letters had faded from curricula in places such as the United States, Finland and Switzerland as schools ...

Fear is often thought of as a negative emotion but is actually a natural protective response to perceived threats or danger. It helps us survive. When we experience a situation that causes fear, it ...

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." — Emerson M. Pugh In a previous piece, I argued that introspection may be our most direct ...

We tend to think of learning as something that happens in the mind, a mental exercise of reading, practicing, and remembering. But the truth is far more visceral. Every time you learn something new, ...

So many of life's most pivotal decisions come down to one question: Should you listen to your logic or your emotions? Popular ...

A new study of bilingual speakers suggests that a single “grammatical engine” in the brain can power multiple languages at once. By K. R. Callaway Speak a language your whole life and its grammatical ...