Bird watching can change your brain for the good.

Researchers used AI and deep learning to find a link between brain structure and navigation skills but found no measurable ...

Steven Weisberg, a researcher at the University of Texas at Arlington, found that advanced artificial intelligence tools could not uncover a clear link between brain structure and navigation ability ...

We often treat learning as something that can be accessed with enough motivation and discipline. But learning depends on something more basic: whether the nervous system is in a state that allows for ...

MRI research found children with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently, but not dot quantities.

Scientists at Rice University have produced the first full, dye-free molecular atlas of an Alzheimer’s brain. By combining ...

Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in ...

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 ...

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

Expert birdwatchers have changes in their brain structure compared with novices, which probably help them better identify birds and may even protect against age-related cognitive decline ...

Save the Children’s early learning specialists outline five key reasons why reading to babies and toddlers every day matters so much, especially in the first years of life.