Findings reveal the molecular mechanism for acetylcholine in learning and memory.
Data collected from a tetraplegic man learning a BCI to play Simon showed the brain replays the learned information during sleep.
Study explores how the brain utilizes learning by inference by generating cognitive maps.
A new, open-source model of synaptic plasticity in the neocortex could propel understanding of how learning occurs in the brain.
Focusing on the largest pyramidal neurons in the motor cortex, researchers found dendritic branches do not simply pass movement information forward. Each sub-branch calculates the information and passes it to larger sub-branches, which in turn, perform the same operation. Multiple dendritic branchlets can interact with each other to amplify their combined computational product.
Early language acquisition may be tied to memory representations that build over time rather than as a repeated connection between objects and words.
Neurons in the basolateral amygdala allow rats to respond to and recall ethological stimuli.
Children who attend school close to busy roads and traffic are more likely to experience deficits in working memory and attention, a new study reports.
How the human brain processes information differs from the brains of other primates. This may help explain why human cognitive abilities are superior to other animals.
Researchers say latent learning occurs without explicit teaching.
Study reports medications for ADHD have little detectable impact on how much a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder learns in the classroom. However, the medications helped children retain attention, improve classroom behavior, and improve seat-time work.
Researchers used optogenetics techniques to stimulate specific brain areas to increase neurogenesis and the production of neural stem cells to improve memory, cognition, and emotional processing in animal models.
