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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neurons that fire together sometimes wire together. PASIEKA/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Every day, people are ...

How does the brain learn from mistakes? A new Duke study reveals a hidden circuit that helps control the learning process.

When the brain encodes and consolidates memories, it often connects related experiences that happened in different places and ...

A receptor long known for guiding brain development before birth also shapes how adults learn, determining how strongly the ...

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, ...

We don't usually realize it, but every word we speak depends on a series of complex brain processes working behind the scenes ...

In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...

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 ...

So you are about to read this article. What unseen assumptions will shape the way you read these words? Let’s find out how your perspective will shift if you examine your assumptions. How Your Brain ...

"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 ...

Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells—much less a brain—can behave ...