Hands of a child learning about patterns of size and color with colorful wooden blocks. Source: myboys/Shutterstock Part of what makes us human is the need for our brains to search for meaning ...

To make our way through the world, our brain must develop an intuitive understanding of the physical world around us, which we then use to interpret sensory information coming into the brain.

The study, published in the June-July issue of the journal Brain and Language, is the first to use patterns of resting-state brain rhythms to predict subsequent language learning rate.

A study suggests that even if an individual is asleep, their brain might not be. It is based on an exercise where researchers ...

The researchers found that as monkeys learn to categorize different patterns of dots, two brain areas involved in learning -- the prefrontal cortex and the striatum -- synchronize their brain ...

Distinct patterns of electrical activity in the sleeping brain may influence whether we remember or forget what we learned the previous day.

Human brains learn patterns over time and we don’t even realize it. New insight into how this works could improve learning and other cognitive processes. Researchers at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of ...

It’s easy to think that a few minutes less sleep won’t make much difference. But research shows that, during adolescence, even a short change in bedtime can shape brain development and thinking skills ...

Babbling in babies and marmoset monkeys shows how brain growth and feedback from caregivers shape language learning.

Through advances in brain imaging techniques and computer algorithms that detangle the signals, the team was able to explore in detail the firing patterns of these neurons while mice were learning a ...

A five-minute measurement of resting-state brain activity predicted how quickly adults learned a second language, report scientists.