For many who have struggled to learn a new language or instrument, it's a familiar pattern: They make rapid progress at first ...

Summary: Researchers identified a dynamic physical mechanism in the adult brain that regulates learning plateaus and skill ...

Learning a new language does more than expand your vocabulary. It challenges your brain, builds cognitive reserve, and may ...

Emerging evidence suggests that only certain types of training produce meaningful benefits, and those benefits may differ ...

Bilinguals and multilinguals may stay younger for longer and have more agile brains. This Special Feature shows just how ...

A new McGill-led study reveals that digital brain exercises can rejuvenate aging brain systems responsible for learning and memory. Older adults using BrainHQ for 10 weeks showed restored cholinergic ...

Researchers uncovered how estrogen subtly reshapes learning by strengthening dopamine reward signals in the brain. Rats learned faster when estrogen levels were high and struggled when the hormone’s ...

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, ...

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 York University and MIT's McGovern Institute, ...

When the brain encodes and consolidates memories, it often connects related experiences that happened in different places and at different times. The neural processes that contribute to linking ...