When you get better at a skill—recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game—sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...

Extensive practice can rewire the brain so a learned skill runs more automatically, making some forms of true multitasking ...

Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana is challenging a story neuroscience has told for decades. According to the conventional account ...

Artificial intelligence may be changing more than how fast you work. Discover the hidden curiosity cycle that shapes learning ...

Some people seem to pick up new skills the way a sponge soaks up water, while others grind through repetition with only modest gains. The gap can look like talent or luck, but neuroscience is ...

This project is not being offered for the current term. Please check back next semester for updates. Two undergraduates will be first learning to work with mice under the supervision of a postdoc in ...

We tend to think of learning as something that happens in the mind, a mental exercise of reading, practicing, and remembering. But the truth is far more visceral. Every time you learn something new, ...

Even in the primary visual cortex, a brain region named for its specialized role in processing basic features of what the eyes see, not every neuron ends up answering the call to process properties of ...

People who speak more than one language seem to have younger brains, according to research presented at the Federation of ...

New research from University of Rochester faculty members Ralf Haefner and Adam Snyder and graduate student Shizhao Liu challenges a long-standing theory in neuroscience by showing that as learning ...