When our thoughts drift away from the task at hand, our brains might actually become better at unconsciously picking up ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...

Scientists discovered a brain circuit that helps the mind switch strategies by reducing neural noise in the prefrontal cortex ...

The team pinpointed the exact moment mice learned a new skill by observing the activity of individual neurons, confirming earlier work that suggested animals are fast learners that purposely test the ...

The FINN Lab surviving the New Hampshire winter. Assistant Professor Emily Finn’s research focuses on individual variability ...

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, ...

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