New Duke research helps to answer a long-standing question in neuroscience: Where, exactly, does learning first take place in ...

Making children laugh can build deep emotional connections and soothe their nervous systems, making them more resilient and open to new ideas, says a leading child development expert. Dr. Jacqueline ...

Researchers say children’s laughter may do much more than create happy moments. Humor and playful interactions could help ...

Brain fog, intensified by the pandemic, affects many individuals' focus and memory.

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

While humans are acquiring new skills that entail performing coordinated movements, such as walking, playing an instrument or ...

Laughter is the best medicine, according to one old adage. Now, new research suggests it boosts child learning and ...

Five foods your brain most wants in your 60s — and the five it could really do without. The evidence is compelling, the foods ...

Researchers have demonstrated that brain cells learn faster and carry out complex networking more effectively than machine learning by comparing how both a Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI) ...

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, ...