Sometimes, even a single experience can be highly impactful, prompting humans and other animals to change their behavior or influencing their future choices. The formation of influential memories from ...

Rutgers researchers are revealing how the brain decides which sensory experiences previously associated with an adverse ...

Understanding how the brain learns and applies rules is the key to unraveling the neural basis of flexible behavior. A new study from the University of Toyama, Japan, reveals that our ability to ...

Ilya Nemenman, a physics and biology professor in Emory College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected as a fellow in the American Physical Society in recognition of his outstanding contributions to ...

The wiring and rewiring of the brain never ends. Neural pathways are constantly being reshaped as we interact with the world and learn new things. At MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research and ...

This episode is part of “The Young American Scientists,” an editorially independent project that was produced with financial support from Regeneron. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science ...

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning ...

Researchers are exploring whether stimulating the brain with electric currents or magnetic fields helps people learn physical ...

Far too many students enter math class expecting to fail. For them, math isn’t just a subject–it’s a source of anxiety that chips away at their confidence and makes them question their abilities. A ...

Neuroscientific advances follow a pattern of visualizing the brain, measuring its function and then controlling it.

Vision is one of the most fundamental senses, shaping how we perceive, navigate and interact with the world around us. Yet for more than 12 million Americans living with visual impairments, even small ...

Neuronal sequences in the medial prefrontal cortex of the brain encode critical information associated with a procedural rule. These sequences can be explored and leveraged as novel biomarkers for ...