Researchers report a link between adverse psychosocial factors experienced during childhood and cognitive function during midlife.
"Off-line" periods during AI training mitigated "catastrophic forgetting" in artificial neural networks, mimicking the learning benefits sleep provides in the human brain.
Children have a rapid boost of GABA during visual learning tasks that continue after the training ends. In adults, GABA levels remain consistent. Findings suggest children's brains respond to training in a way that allows the to more quickly and more efficiently stabilize learning.
Bergmann glial cell synaptic engulfing in the cerebellum was enhanced during motor learning in mice.
While some deem traditional fairy tales to be outdated or sexist, researchers say fairy stories play an important role in teaching young children about social justice, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking skills.
Daydreaming activates the hippocampus, inducing electrical impulses that help us to encode memories.
The earlier language disorders in children are identified, the earlier help can be provided to insure fluid language acquisition.
Researchers reveal why a good night's sleep helps boost learning and memory.
Psychostimulants increase dopamine levels, enhancing task-relevant cortical signals by acting on the striatum and the difference in dopamine synthesis capacity in the striatum explains the variability in the drugs' cognitive effects.
By being unable to focus attention, children avoid the "learning trap" adults sometimes fall into.
Assessing a child's exposure to air pollution on a monthly basis from conception to the age of 8.5, researchers found the greater the exposure to air pollution before the age of 5, the greater the alteration in brain structure by preadolescence.
Researchers investigate how infants learn the speech contrasts of their native languages, identifying the necessary signals are presented in naturalistic speech.
